Brookfield Police Taser Man Attempting 'Suicide by Cop'

Brookfield police sent “multiple units” to 370 Candlewood Lake Road Thursday evening after a local man called police dispatch to tell them he had several knives and intended to “commit suicide by cop,” intentionally putting police into a situation where they would be forced to kill him.

Officers arrived at the scene to find the man, whose identity has not been released, sitting on the front lawn of 370 Candlewood Lake with a knife in his hand. According to accounts, the man got up off the ground and began to advance with the knife, at which point police tasered him.

Officers were able to subdue the man without mortal injury — tasering him and wrestling the knife out of his hands — and he was transported to Danbury Hospital for treatment “without further incident.”

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