Suspect in Friday standoff booked into jail, faces multiple charges including aggravated burglary

photo by: Ashley Hocking

Lawrence police respond to an incident on North Stowe Court on Friday, June 29, 2018.

A 34-year-old Lawrence man was booked into the Douglas County Jail early Saturday morning pending charges that correspond to an armed standoff Friday night that led to a Lawrence police officer discharging a firearm.

According to Douglas County Jail booking logs, Adbul Jalil K. Hussein, of 620 N. Stowe Court, was booked into jail for the alleged criminal use of a weapon, criminal damage to property, criminal discharge of a firearm and aggravated burglary. The booking logs indicate that those incidents occurred at 9:52 p.m. Friday.

The times and nature of the pending charges correspond to details the Lawrence Police Department has released on a 3 1/2-hour armed standoff in northern Lawrence that ended Saturday morning with an arrest and a shot fired by a Lawrence police officer. No one was injured in the incident.

According to police, officers were dispatched to the 400 block of North Crestline Drive for a report involving a disturbance with weapons.

The suspect fled the Crestline scene by car and went slightly north to the 600 block of North Stowe Court, police said. An officer reportedly made contact with the suspect, a struggle ensued and the suspect retreated to a house.

The suspect then emerged from the house and “brandished a weapon at the officer,” according to police. The officer, who was not identified, discharged a firearm. The suspect, who also was not identified, was not injured, according to police. The suspect retreated back to the house, and a standoff ensued for nearly four hours.

A news release from police did not provide details on how the standoff ended, other than that the suspect was taken into custody without injury.

The involved officer is on paid administrative leave, pending an investigation by an outside agency, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.

Police did not release any details about the suspect, the initial disturbance with weapons call or the type of weapon the suspect reportedly brandished.

The 600 block of North Stowe Court also was the site of an armed standoff in December 2017. Police made one arrest in that case after a male subject fired shots in the air and then retreated to his house, where an approximately four-hour standoff ensued. Police did not identify the person in that incident.

Information was not available about whether Friday night’s incident was related to the December incident.

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