{"id":33529,"date":"2016-10-17T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/police-seek-suspect-who-shot-officer\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:37:22","slug":"police-seek-suspect-who-shot-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-seek-suspect-who-shot-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek suspect who shot officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 Police in Alaska\u2019s second largest city say a man who shot and seriously wounded an officer and drove off in his patrol car is still at large.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Allen Brandt, an 11-year veteran of the Fairbanks Police Department, was shot multiple times as he patrolled in a squad car in a residential neighborhood just east of the city\u2019s downtown commercial area. After initial treatment in Fairbanks, he was flown to Anchorage in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Monday said his condition is stable. The patrol car was found nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the suspect as an Alaska Native man about 20 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released few details on the shooting but made public dashboard videos recorded from Brandt\u2019s patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>The first silent, black and white video shows Brandt slowing the squad car as a man walks toward him on the sidewalk, his bare hands at his side.<\/p>\n<p>The car stops and the man, wearing a cap and a heavy, black jacket, reaches with his right hand toward his coat pocket. He moves forward out of camera range.<\/p>\n<p>Seconds later, the camera records the man dashing in front of the patrol car toward the driver\u2019s side, with both hands clasped around a handgun.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the suspect drove off in Brandt\u2019s patrol car and abandoned it a few blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>A second video released by police shows the patrol car after it has stopped. The suspect crosses in front of the car, striding away quickly, illuminated by headlights.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple witnesses called dispatchers to say they heard shots. A radio transmission from Brandt followed, reporting he had been shot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Monday were preparing to release more details on the incident, said administrative assistant Yumi McCulloch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Police in Alaska\u2019s second largest city say a man who shot and seriously wounded an officer and drove off in his patrol car is still at large. Sgt. Allen Brandt, an 11-year veteran of the Fairbanks Police Department, was shot multiple times as he patrolled in a squad car in a residential neighborhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33529"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}