WATERTOWN, S.D. – Police in Watertown were called to a downtown fire station on a report of an armed man who appeared to be intoxicated and was threatening to take his own life.
Capt. Steve Rehorst says officers responded about 2:40 a.m. Tuesday and found the man in the station’s lobby with a pistol. The man was coming out of the station lobby as police arrived. Rehorst says the man refused commands to drop the weapon and threatened to kill himself. Officers fired bean bag rounds at the man and were able to take him into custody.
The captain says although the pistol looked like a regular weapon, it turns out that it was an airsoft gun.
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