Jose Garcia
Male, Hispanic
Date of the incident: 12/25/2017
Yakima, Yakima, WA
20 Pendleton Way
20 Pendleton Way
Police responded around 7:30 p.m. to reports of a man at the Cascade Apartments threatening residents with a gun, police said. When officers arrived, they found a 31-year-old man barricaded in his apartment. The man was blind and had a history of assault behavior. Officers negotiated with the man and heard him talking as if someone else was inside the apartment. When they broke into the apartment, he was shot and killed within minutes.