Officers Arrest Man Accused Of Threatening To Kill Police

The hunt for a man accused of threatening to "kill cops" ended with his arrest in Tacoma, police said.

Police launched a manhunt near Tacoma Community College shortly after 4 a.m. Tuesday.

When KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Michelle Millman arrived at the scene, Tacoma police had the area mostly surrounded as they were looking for a man police were told was armed with an AK-47 rifle and had threatened to kill police officers.

The victim's mother said the incident began in Puyallup where her daughter was beat up by her new boyfriend.

“My daughter was just hysterical saying, ‘he’s got a gun, he’s got a gun.’ Thank God they caught him because an AK-47 and a crazy man make a really bad mix,” said the victim’s mother.

Police said the man drover from Puyallup to a Tacoma apartment building, stopped the car, and then ran from officers. Police located the man hiding in a shed near Sixth and Pearl streets a short time later.

Investigators said the man did not have a weapon.

He was booked into the Pierce County Jail.