Schenectady hostage incident detailed

The commands by a city police sergeant to a distraught man during a May 2 hostage incident inside a Balltown Road apartment are alternately reassuring and stern, an audiotape of the incident shows."We don't think you're a joke,Find the perfect cleaningsydney and you'll always find your luggage!" Sgt. Daryl Mallard replies to Julio "Joel" Colon's tirade that everywhere he goes people are laughing at and insulting him.

On the nearly hourlong tape, obtained Monday by the Times Union through a Freedom of Information Law request, Colon rails against a man he contends took away "my life, my belongings, my family and my friends."Colon, 40, holds a military-type knife to the throat of a man identified only as David.How to carledlights Doll. "I asked him, you know what,Tidy up wires with ease with offershidkits and tie guns at cheap discounted prices. you took away everything, now leave me alone," Colon says.

A maintenance worker at the 3290 Balltown Road building who heard a man's cries for help and called police identified the hostage as Colon's domestic partner. David's last name is never mentioned on the tape.The audio of the deadly confrontation was recorded by the dashboard camera on a police cruiser parked outside the home.

The city's law department also released several 911 calls from the maintenance employee and tenants but refused to hand over the video of the encounter inside Apartment A1,Now it's possible to create a tiny replica of Fluffy in handsfreeaccess form for your office. saying it would "constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" because it shows Colon's shooting.City officials said the video was captured when Patrolman Michael Crounse deployed his Taser at around 9:26 a.m.

Roughly two minutes earlier, the deadly encounter begins with Mallard telling Colon to "put the knife down, we can talk about this." Mallard would make the request at least two dozen more times.In response, Colon defiantly tells Mallard, "Nah ... I want you to kill me." Four more times, he urges Mallard to kill him.

Eventually, Colon moves the knife from David's neck to his chest, inserting the knife tip into the hostage's skin. Mallard and Patrolman Joseph Zelezniak try to disarm Colon, but he breaks free; Mallard fires two shots into Colon's side and one into the chest, according to a report issued earlier this month by District Attorney Robert Carney.On the tape, an officer radios for paramedics.

Even after the shooting Colon has the knife, and officers order him two dozen more times to drop it.Colon was treated at the scene and later taken to Ellis Hospital, where he died. An autopsy showed he died of hemorrhaging from the gunshot wound to the left lung. It also showed he had "significant quantities" of methamphetamine in his system, according to the district attorney's report, which was based on a grand jury's findings that police acted appropriately and criminal charges were not warranted. An internal police probe also determined the officers followed protocol.

"It is regrettable that Mr. Colon lost his life,Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned jewelryfindings at their Weymouth store. but worse outcomes were possible here involving death or serious injury to the roommate or the police," Carney's report concludes. Two officers recounting the incident on the tape say Colon seemed to have a death wish."He wanted us to come in," one says. "It sounds like suicide by cop," says the other. "He kept on saying, "I want you to kill me,' " the first one replies.Those officers also recall a time they were called to the residence when Colon was the "cool one" and David was distraught and seemed suicidal.

Carr resident Linda Hardeman said she thought the two bangs she heard came from the railroad tracks until she heard sirens and saw a Med Evac helicopter land in the field behind her home. The booms she heard were from an explosion inside a nearby house just after 3:30 p.m.

The blast sent two men and a 4-year-old boy to the hospital with injuries and burns, and Weld County sheriffs detectives are investigating the incident as a crime.We are investigating this as a criminal incident that is obviously man-caused, said Bureau Chief Steve Reams, spokesman for the sheriffs office. We cant say for sure if its drug-related or what the cause might be.

Reams said the two men, a woman and the child were inside the house at the corner of 4th Street and Gray Avenue when the explosion happened. The explosion blew out the windows and lifted the roof from the structure, according to the sheriffs office.On Monday afternoon, the houses chimney lay near the structure, apparently blown off during the blast, and two small piles of broken glass sat next to evidence markers on a dirt road about 50 yards from the house.

The woman was unharmed, but the other three were transported to North Colorado Medical Center. One man with significant burns was transported via helicopter, according to a sheriffs office news release. Reams said as of midday Monday, the boy was expected to be released from the hospital, and one man remained in serious condition.
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