Police stormed a motel room in a seaside town Tuesday evening and captured a Washington state man suspected of killing his grandparents, ending a multistate search and a tense daylong standoff at the motel.
“Everyone’s safe. No one’s hurt,” Lincoln City Police Chief Keith Kilian said.
Police had spent much of the day trying to persuade Michael Boysen to surrender. After breaching the motel room door, they stormed in and captured him.
Boysen was found lying on the floor on his back with a self-inflicted cut, Kilian said. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Boysen was alive, but the severity of his injury was not immediately clear, Kilian said.
Law enforcement authorities in Washington state confirmed Boysen was alive.
“We’re certainly glad it’s over and nobody else got hurt. We’re glad they were able to take him into custody alive,” said King County Sheriff John Urquhart.
“It sounds like they got to him in time,” Urquhart said.
The bodies of Boysen’s grandparents were found Saturday in their suburban Seattle home, a day after Boysen was released from prison and was greeted with a welcome home party.
During Tuesday‘s siege in the Oregon tourist town of Lincoln City, police pointed rifles at the motel, fired blasts from a water cannon and used a bullhorn to try to persuade Boysen to give up.
Police used a robot equipped with a video camera and a microphone to communicate with him. The robot was sent onto a balcony outside the motel room. Police breached the door and were able to communicate with Boysen through the robot.
When Boysen didn’t come out on his own, police went in after him.
“We tried to negotiate,” Kilian said. “We saw an opening that didn’t compromise the safety of our officers.”
Boysen checked into the motel Monday night under his own name but wasn’t recognized until Tuesday morning, when a desk clerk saw a television story about the case and called police, Kilian said.
Boysen, 26, made threats against members of his family and law enforcement while behind bars, Corrections Department spokesman Chad Lewis said Tuesday. But authorities didn’t learn of the threats until after the bodies of the grandparents were found and authorities had started looking for Boysen.
“Sources went to our staff at the Monroe Correctional Center and told us he had been threatening to do all this,” Lewis said.
The information was passed on to King County deputies, and that’s why Sheriff Urquhart called Boysen extremely dangerous at a Monday news conference. Investigators also determined that Boysen had been searching the Internet for gun shows.
Boysen just finished serving nine months in prison on a burglary conviction, Lewis said. He had no violent infractions in prison — “nothing extraordinary,” Lewis said.
He served a previous sentence between 2006 and February 2011 for four robbery convictions. Those convictions were related to an addiction to narcotic painkillers, Lewis said.
Boysen’s grandparents picked him up from prison Friday and drove him to meet his probation officer and to get an identification card from the Department of Licensing. They held a welcome home party for him …read more
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