Man In Custody After Threatening To Kill 80-year-old Woman

A 50-year-old Waukesha man was arrested after he threatened to kill an 80-year-old woman at 8:07 p.m. Saturday while inside a residence in the 1700 block of Sunset Drive, according to the Waukesha Police.

The man faces one count of obstruction and resisting arrest, which have been submitted to the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office.

Officers had surrounded the man’s home for over a half hour after he allegedly called the 80-year-old woman’s daughter numerous times telling her to “call the police because someone is going to die over this!”

A few minutes later, officers with the Waukesha Police Department were at the residence. The woman the man had allegedly threatened and the man were both inside the home. The woman told the police the man was inside the home sleeping. She called the man and asked him to come outside. When he came out, the man didn’t comply with the officer’s orders and had his hand in his pocket while they were trying to take him into custody.

Fearing that the man was reaching for a weapon from his waistband, the officer shot him several times with beanbag rounds from a less lethal shotgun and tased the man, according to Captain Ron Oremus, of the Waukesha Police Department.

“He was intoxicated and being disorderly and threatening.  No idea why he became disorderly,” Oremus said.

After police took the man into custody, rescue personnel transported the man to Waukesha Memorial Hospital for medical clearance. However, no injuries were reported.