TACOMA, Wash. - The people on East 34th Street in Tacoma have quite the collection of war stories. Last night was just another notch on the belt.
"I came out to cover my boat last night and look across the street see someone prowling around Dave’s car, trying to jimmy it,” said Brandon VanBrocklin. “My wife called Dave.”
“I have a taser, grabbed it on the way out of the door just in case, i didn't know what i was running into,” said Dave Sanderson.
Neighbors chased the man behind Sanderson's home to the alley.
"I warned him three or four or five times, to let me see his hands, and he started to come out with his hands, like he had a gun, and I tased him,” said Sanderson.
What the man was reaching for was a hatchet. The taser didn't get him, he took off running, but only made it about 50 feet.
"He went head-over-heels, hit the ground and we were on top of him like that, he kept trying to fight and flail, basically where he was until cops got here,” said VanBrocklin.
Sanderson says with the amount of crime that goes on here, they have to rely on each other.
“We cover each other’s back all the time, you gotta, you ain't got close neighbors like that who ya got,” said VanBrocklin.
Dave says he's not a vigilante, just a citizen, who’s frustrated.
The incident is under investigation. Police took Sanderson’s taser and the prosecutor's office will decide if he will be charged for deploying it.
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