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Grays Harbor Co. Sheriff's Offic
Suspect Steven Daniel Kravetz was arrested Saturday in Olympia, Wash.
Updated at 6:41 p.m. ET: Authorities on Saturday arrested a man suspected in a courthouse attack in Montesano, Wash., at a home in the state capital of Olympia after a tip from his mother, according to media reports.
The mother of 34-year-old Steven Daniel Kravetz called Thurston County authorities after police released a flier with her and her son's photo. The mother, Roberta L. Dougherty, told authorities her son was at a residence in Olympia, The Seattle Times reported.
A SWAT team surrounded the house and negotiated his surrender, KOMO News reported. He was taken into custody without incident.
Kravetz is suspected of stabbing a judge and shooting a sheriff's deputy with her own weapon in a courthouse struggle in the coastal town of Montesano in Grays Harbor County, which is about about 90 miles southwest of Seattle and just west of Thurston County.
"He acted alone and we know him to be the assailant," Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Undersheriff Rick Scott said earlier Saturday. "We're operating under the belief that he's still armed."
Kravetz fled the courthouse with the officer's .45-caliber handgun after Friday's attack and showed up about an hour or so later at the office of his former attorney and asked to the use the phone, Scott said.
The attorney had represented Kravetz a number of years ago and "didn't know anything was up," Scott said.
Investigators believe Kravetz called his mom at about 3 p.m. and that she apparently gave him a ride out of the area, Scott said.
"We don't know what her knowledge or involvement is," the undersheriff said, adding: "We're concerned for her welfare. We don't know what his mental, emotional state was following the incident."
Around noon Friday, the deputy responded to a report of a suspicious person at the courthouse and confronted a man, Scott said. During a struggle, she was stabbed with either a small knife or scissors.
"When I went to assist the deputy, he had a weapon in his hand, a knife or something, and he was stabbing her," says Edwards. "And that's when I got stabbed."
When Davin attempted to draw her firearm, the attacker knocked her to the ground and took the weapon away from her, then shot her in the shoulder.
"He got the gun away from the deputy and went 'pop pop!'" said Edwards. "And [he] turned and looked at me then he went out the courthouse with the gun in his hand."
Both the judge and the sheriff's deputy were treated and released from a hospital hours after the attack.
Kravetz has 2008 felony convictions in Washington's for third-degree assault with a weapon and making a false statement to a public servant, according to court records, The Seattle Times reported. He was arrested after he refused to cooperate with police after being kicked out of a Centralia public library, Centralia police Sgt. Stacy Denham told the newspaper.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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You can run but you cannot hide..... turn yourselves in!
This article was painful to read... Editors? Do you have them? The text of the article as of 8:38pm MST on 3/10 is absolutely atrocious... full of errors...
Good old Mom to the rescue. The picture shows a man looking a little unstable at best. Don't know what's going on in Gray's Harbor. If I remember correctly, a State Patrol officer was shot and killed there not too long ago.
I love my kid but would definitely draw the line at going to prison for her to escape the police. Would I try to kill someone that harmed her? Maybe. Would I be willing to go to prison to help her escape the police? NO!
@ onermailliw,
The trooper was killed in Kitsap County a couple weeks ago. There was a trooper shot and wounded who survived (thank goodness) two years ago near Westport in Gray's Harbor county.
After the way I've been treated by the police, the courts, and society in general (mostly like a subhuman piece of sh*t completely undeserving of even the most basic rights), I can say with complete conviction that I would NEVER take the side of the state against a family member, no matter what they had done.
The U.S. can't control the legal citizens living in the U.S., allows in over 1 million more aliens every year and doesn't want to deport the 11-20million illegal aliens, allows anchor babies and then wonders why the prisons are over crowded!
This earth was not meant to sustain 7 billion people and it is only due to U.S. scientists that increased crop production per acre that the earth is supporting these people.
335,000,000 people living in the U.S. is enough!
America is one big happy family. Everyone is welcome.
takenaka
do you EVER have anything positive to say or are you just a troll that hates themselves?
And yes everyone WAS welcome, now there is a line to get in. But since you don't like things here there are roughly 190 or so others to choose from.
@ Stone
Sooo, stone, I've always wondered why it is that people who have your track record and attitude don't seem to consider that they deserve EXACTLY what the system delivers. Are you saying you are guiltless, innocent, law abiding, a productive citizen who respect others and their property, and that you were picked on randomly?
Tell us why you even had the contacts with the authorities that you claim led to your mistreatment.
On the other hand, if you are and have been a criminal, drug user, slacker who prays on other...you get what you deserve, and we don't. TS and oh well in that case.
LOL Chuck you're funny.
What 'track record' would that be, Chuck? I mean, you say that like you think you know me! ROTFLMAO
Thing is, I don't have to justify myself to you. You're just angry that there are LOTS of corrupt cops and judges out there who will sh*t all over poor kids just to further their own careers without a thought for the long term consequences, and that it ultimately ends up biting chumps like you in the ass.
That's okay though, my contempt and hatred for cops, judges and folks like you is entirely justified, and it's never going away.
Choke on it.
:D
actually stonedog your ATTITUDE seems to be one of someone who has spent time in the system and feels it is out to get them. You come across as someone who feels they are OWED something.
Yep, I am OWED something.
It's called JUSTICE.
Go F*CK OFF!
tsk tsk there stonedog.
What did you "not" do that they convicted you of? See, that attitude goes a long way towards people being in your corner. Telling the world to eff off will have them do just that and you will be on the receiving end. Were you caught in the act or just wrongly accused of being with the mayors daughter and 1 day too old?
Yo stone, did you or did you not say:
And then you ask:
How do you get a track record without contact wit law enforcement and the courts? Ummm, I'm pretty sure you're not the sharpest blade in the sheath, but even you gotta recognize that you've confessed to being unlawful and had to be arrested and adjudicated in the courts.
And so, I asked you why you have the dog-sh*t attitude you have when you were responsible for your own trouble..not society, law enforcement or the courts.
You want to give a reasonable explainable of yourself, or do you still want to hide behind alibis for fu*king up, getting caught, and blaming everyone but yourself? If you had any sense, you'd realize that the fu*king up part, not the getting caught and answering to society was where you're at fault and your problems lie.
As President Reagan once said: "Life is tough, but it's even tougher when your stupid."
I don't care who is and isn't in my corner. It's already been made clear to me that I'll never get justice. But since you want to accuse me of being a pedophile, you f*cknut:
I am likely the only person who has ever been told by this country that I don't have the right to defend myself. The only one who has been told to just lie down and allow myself to be beaten and stabbed to death by a bunch of punk ass wannabe gangbangers. Told that I don't have the right to live. Im going to make this brief, because I have other things to do today.
See, when i was a kid I had problems with a guy who just didn't like me. Said I 'stared at him' or some crap. I tried to fight him like a man but that wasn't good enough. He chased me several times with a baseball bat because that's how kats like that get down. I tried to get help from the police, and you know what they told me that if I didn't have proof, they wouldn't do anything.
This went on so long that I got a gun from a friend, just for protection. Turned out to be the best decision I ever made.
You see, not too long after I got the gun I was walking down the street, and a car comes along and swerves at me to try and hit me. I didn't think a lot about it, as I walked everywhere I went back then, and had experienced plenty of crap from assh*les who like to f*ck with pedestrians. Except it was this punk, who went down to the end of the street, then came back a second time and tried to hit me again, almost crashing in the process. Then he went back up around the corner to his house, got his brothers and their friends, and came after me with baseball bats and knives.
So what did I do? Pulled out my gun and pointed it at them. Didn't shoot anyone, didn't fire a shot, hell, I didn't even have to chamber a round, because they were cowards. All I had to do is hold the gun on them and back away until I could get away. That's it.
Next thing I know the police are coming to arrest ME. When they showed up I put the gun on the ground, and the cops told me that they wished I would have kept the gun so they could have shot me. When I pleaded with them to go talk to witnesses and find out what really happened, they said NO.
Then I was carted off to jail, where I spent the next year of my life. No reasonable bail, $500,000 for someone with no criminal history working at a warehouse for $9.50 an hour is not reasonable. A job I lost, by the way. No adequate counsel. I had a public defender I saw maybe 3 or 4 times who didn't give a sh*t about me. That's not adequate counsel. No oppurtunity to procure witnesses for my defense: nobody even tried, and I was denied the one chance I had. These things are known as 'articles of due process'. Look them up. I was denied due process. Hope you're proud of that, because you share in the blame.
In the end I was given a second degree assault charge, which is a strike, a violent offense, which I will carry with me the rest of my life. No attempted vehicular assault charges against the other guy. No attempted first degree assault charges against him or his friends. No justice for me, because in the eyes of YOUR country, to which I no longer owe any loyalty or allegiance, by the way, because of this, I am worthless filth.
All because I chose to live. Every lawyer I have ever talked to about this has told me that I got screwed.
But that's fine. As far as I'm concerned, the only good cop is a dead cop. The only good judge is a dead judge. The only thing sad about this news story is that the cop and judge survived. I find that extremely disappointing, as they are my enemies FAR MORE than any whack job in the middle east.
That's just one instance of how I've been screwed.
So, let's say that this is exactly what happened to you, which is likely an abbreviated version of other circumstances that don't paint you as such a compete victim, how is your attitude going to make life better for you? You seem to enjoy the place you're allowing yourself to be in. Wrongs can't be undone by hating people, who also happen to be cops and judges and their families, until it kills you...nice way to treat your one and only chance at your short time on terra firma. And believe me it is short and you'll realize that as you grow older...but older you will get. How you lead your life until the final breath is on your back. You can't change the past..but you can control your future. I know, I've been in both places.
Regardless of all the facts of your sad story, you are responsible for yourself...no one else. There is only one answer, pal..you need help. Get counseling, and stick with it. Or else you'll end up whining your way though life with no real friends, or probably family, feelings of self-worth, living and dying in agony, and it sucks to be that guy.
stonedog34
See there is the attitude and Ass-U-Me thing. Statutory rape is having sex with someone underage, even if YOU happen to be underage as well. That does NOT make one a pedophile. In some states so long as the two individuals involved are within 2 years or less of each other the charges are wrong or dismissed. Most kids can't count the days of the month let alone days between birth dates when they are in the mood. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt there Stone. See attitude can blind you when people are trying to give a break.
From your side of the story it sounds like you got a raw deal. Have you considered having your record expunged or the conviction reversed? Would you be eligible for either of those or have you been convicted of other crimes. Were you in LEGAL possession of the gun or did you violate several laws there such as concealed carry without a permit, age restriction, legal registration?
The cops sound like Mayberry good ole boys or they had history with either you or the other party. Perhaps the mayors son?
Tango #2.14: Wise words.
OK...so now we know that any words of wisdom were wasted on stoned-brain. If he were in Afghanistan, I'd bet he would have been the demented sergeant that slaughtered the eleven kids and other Afghans to satisfy his demented self-inflicted cravings to kill those who he choose to hate a couple days ago.
Society has an answer for these POS...they all die or end up serving their lives in prison. Both answers are to good for them...why, because they'll inflict pain and suffering on innocents to get their cookies.
Good bye, stone, you fu*king moron.
Another "Loser" running from the law because he just couldn't follow simple rules of our society.
Turn yourself in or you'll end up with a bullet in your head from law enforcement which will save the taxpayers a trial.
Wow, you already know from experience I take it on being a loser.... I mean how else do you know this guy. How do you know that the officer or the judge wasn't following the rules?? I have witness first hand corrupt cops and judges, especially in small towns.
Chris , I think you can safely say that no matter what the judge or officer were doing you don't get to try to kill them.
chris-2252558,
So Chris what would you like me to call this guy besides "Loser" maybe a "Fugitive"? A "Winner" perhaps? I think not, No matter what the judge did or didn't do, they did not deserve what this idiot did to them and the guy is a loser when he doesn't follow the law we have. You do realize he tried to kill these people right?
It sounds like you may be the one who knows this idiot more than I would as you seem to know how these small town judges work as you stated to my posting. (How do you know that the officer or the judge wasn't following the rules?? I have witness first hand corrupt cops and judges, especially in small towns.)
The Judge was and is following the laws of the U.S, If you can prove he doesn't follow the law then lets see our proof?
You sound like just another crook that has a chip on his shoulder because you were caught and convicted, (Maybe even in a small town) Crime doesn't pay. (Unless your a politician! lol)
Let me finish off with this, Whatever I write here is strictly IMO, and anyone who uses violence to deal with there problems isn't going to win in the end just like this idiot did.
I hope he has enough of a brain left to turn himself in, SOON!
When I finally snap I hope I can pull off an escape in something cooler than my mom's Focust.
Especially with mom driving. "What a maroon!"
Do you really mean maroon as in a 'color', or did you really mean 'moron' as in you?
Using a "Bugs Bunny" expression, should not be grounds for a web attack jg. Play nice : )
JG
Do you really mean maroon as in a 'color', or did you really mean 'moron' as in you?
Obviously you have never seen the GREAT Bugs Bunny.
A term of derision often uttered by Bugs Bunny when referring to an interaction with a dopey adversary. It is a mispronunciation of the word "Moron"
"What a Maroon!" "Will ya get a load of this maroon"
I am just glad that the Judge and Deputy are ok. Although I think the Deputy may need more training in weapons retention techniques, though not seeing how she lost her gun, I could be wrong. I worked armed for many years and we had yearly training in this area.
In my mind, being stabbed would somewhat mitigate losing your weapon to an assailant. Weapon retention is not an east thing in a struggle when you are at your best, and being stabbed would certainly degrade your physical performance.
Its more likely she lost it because shes a chick and chicks are naturally weaker than guys.
The real cowboys I know aren't urban. And if "chicks are naturally weaker than guys" .......I guess that's why women are strong enough and have the physical equipment for childbirth and men don't.
This story has a lot of facets. Why muddy the waters with a bunch of stupid sexist remarks.
I just hope the injured recover at this point. They were totally innocent.
Urban Cowboy,
So then I guess male police officers who lose their gun to an assailant are just a bunch of weaklings then?
they forgot to mention the 10 hour lock down of an ederly couple's house - AND HE WASNT EVEN IN THERE - but 2 hours away!!!
That was the first story!
The story did not say that mom knew what he had done. It does say the authorities were worried about here safety or well being. I hope this young man does not cause his mom to be injurred or killed.
The police are on this one! Had a standoff at an empty house. It wasn't even the suspects. Now they let this guy get away in his mom's focus, was it? (LOL) This is just too good! He will be caught because his mom is leading the escape, and sooner than later she will realize the folly of the situation, and turn them both in! This guy does look pretty crafty tho, perhaps he will talk his mom into stopping for ice cream first?
R.I.P. Lenny Kravetz
let's get this guys head chainsawed off!
female deputy gets stabbed by an assailant. then gets her own weapon taken away and then shot with same........sure hope you're looking for a different line of worh there hon...
So I guess she was the very first deputy ever to have her weapon taken away and be injured, hon?
But, he was such a good boy.
Now he can be a good girl.
That's a lot of assault convictions. You'd think he'd be in prison.
Ban knives.
Having mental illness is tough. But having thinning hair is worse.
Are they SURE this time? Earlier they attacked an empty house that belonged to an elderly couple while looking for yet someone else.
Well, they claim to have negotiated his surrender. But then, the first story said he was in custody too. Hope they`re right this time.Glad they were not hurt worse, but they really should know more about subduing a person. A person in a mental state is very dangerous. Much stronger than a normal person. A police baton is likely more useful in that situation than a gun.
He got kicked out of the Library. I wonder if they will kick him out of prison.
AND you wonder why police and other law officials have an attitude when you bump into them! It's because of NUT CASES like THIS, they have to deal with! OBVIOUSLY, she(the gaurd) wasn't on her toes! ANYBODY,is suspect in a courthouse, INCLUDING the JUDGE!
His mental status will be taken into consideration. Then he will be incarcerated for a long long time.
Ban Knives