Gogian started as a Topeka police officer Sept. 27, 2004. Atherly began on April 4, 2011.
Law enforcement officers had last named David Edward Tiscareno, 22, of Topeka, as the lead suspect in the shooting. Officers had been stationed outside 304 S.W. Western from 1:30 a.m. to about 7 a.m. on a report that a suspect could be found at the residence. They used loudspeakers and sounded sirens in an to attempt to make contact with the suspect for more than one hour.
Shortly after 6 a.m. Monday, officers deployed gas and shots were fired, the release states. The suspect had a gun and was hit, it says, but the sheriff’s office didn’t immediately know whether the suspect fired his weapon.
After the altercation, a body was seen lying face down outside the home. The body was loaded into an ambulance and taken from the scene.
No one could yet confirm the injured person was Tiscareno.
However, a Topeka police officer several times called for “David” to come out of the house, with his hands up, before gunshots were heard and the injured person was taken from the house.
A spokeswoman with Stormont Vail Healthcare said the hospital didn’t have any information it could release. Any information, she said, would come from the police department.
No one at the police department had any news to share about 7 a.m., though dozens of candles brought to the memorial out front of the Law Enforcement Center continued to burn early Monday. An officer was seen standing next to the memorial bowing his head.
“It’s a tragedy. It’s clearly beyond words,” Police Chief Ron Miller said during a news conference Sunday night. “It’s unspeakable, almost, about why this happens and why this is happening in America at this stage in our history. But it is what it is.”
The release states the Kansas Bureau of Investigation will handle the case.
Law enforcement officers with several agencies, including Topeka police, the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office and the KBI, had staked out the residence on Western, which belongs to Francisco and Daizy Castillo, since about 1:30 a.m. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the Castillos knew Tiscareno.
At 5 a.m., they were waiting on a warrant to arrive, according to a Shawnee County dispatcher.
Shortly thereafter, police Lt. Ron Gish started communicating with “David” through a loudspeaker. He repeated several times during the course of an hour the house was surrounded, that officers weren’t leaving, that “David” should come out the front door with his hands up and that he wouldn’t be harmed.
The first shots fired at the house sounded about 5:30 a.m., when five bangs rang out in rapid succession. It wasn’t clear who fired.
Immediately after, police could be heard yelling “Raise your hands” and “Move, move. Come out toward the street.” However, the person wasn’t the suspect, and police continued to call for “David” to leave the house.
There was a change in the message after this incident, however. Gish could be heard over the loudspeaker saying, “We know you’re in there, David. We talked to the people who were inside the house.”
At 5:55 a.m., after several more attempts to convince the suspect to leave the house on his own, Gish told him he had five minutes or officers would use force.
Minutes ticked by, with Gish giving “David” a countdown every two minutes or so. Officers continued to sound the sirens of the vehicles posted outside the house. Nothing actually happened until about 6:15 a.m.
As a KBI vehicle moved around to the south side of the west facing house, two loud bangs, possible gas canisters, could be heard.
Then came a third bang, and several voices yelling at once. Several more shots were fired.
“Just shot himself” and “Come out the front door, David!” could be heard over the ruckus. Gish could be heard, calm over the loudspeaker, telling “David” to come out and “We know you’re hurt.”
After about one minute, officers gathered on the front porch around what appeared to be a man’s body. The person, who wasn’t moving and was face down, eventually was loaded into an ambulance and driven to a local hospital.
Law enforcement were setting up crime scene tape about 7 a.m. around the northeast corner of S.W. 3rd and Western.
About two dozen uniformed officers could be seen moving among the shadows throughout the ordeal. Other officers were stationed at surrounding streets to keep people away from danger. Western Avenue was closed down through 5th street as of 6:45 a.m.
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