Commander Green with the Aberdeen Police Department says that while they were on the scene of a barricaded subject with a firearm on Summit Street Thursday Afternoon, a second high priority call came out just blocks away at the Wishkah River Bridge, an incident that stopped all westbound traffic into Aberdeen for 3 hours. The traffic back up was as far away as Central Park 7-11.

At approximately 1:51 PM,  officers received 911 calls about a subject on top of the Wishkah Street Bridge.  Several officers broke free along with the DCR and two CRU Crisis Negotiators. 

The Hoquiam Police Department responded to assist as well as the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office (GHCSO) Marine Unit. 

The DCR and CRU Negotiators were able to partially climb up the structure to attempt to de-escalate the situation. 

Due to the safety of the motoring public, first responders, and the subject on top of the structure, Wishkah Street was closed at the bridge. 

After three and a half hours, the subject climbed down from the top and jumped into the water where the GHCSO Marine Unit was able to reach him. 

Aberdeen Fire Department Paramedics checked on him and he was then taken into custody for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass. 

The subject, a 38 year-old Aberdeen transient, was booked into the Aberdeen City Jail.

Commander Green with the Aberdeen Police Department says that they have a 30-year-old Aberdeen man in custody following a 6-hour standoff that occurred on Thursday, July 8th.  

At approximately 12:03PM, Aberdeen Police Officers were dispatched to a report of a subject with a rifle inside a residence in the 900 block of Summit Street, Aberdeen.  Callers were reporting the subject was threatening to kill people in the residence. As officers responded, it was reported that the subject fired a round from the rifle inside the residence.

We have an updated press release from the Grays Harbor Sheriffs Office where they say a man known to Sheriff's Deputies with a known mental health issue refused to comply with officers after he tried to run another driver off the roadway then following her to her campsite at Twin Harbors State Park Grayland confronting her with knives. 

The Scary Situation occurred on July 6th, 2021 at 5:40pm when deputies of the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a display that had just occurred on SR 105 near Twin Harbor State Park. The reporting party advised dispatch that a male suspect had been closely following her in her vehicle as she traveled on SR 105, and he tried to run her off the road several times.