Mental Health Crisis – Riverside County News Source

Hours-long standoff ends with arrest after meat cleaver-wielding man threatens neighbors

April 1, 2022 Trevor Montgomery

REDDING, Calif., — Authorities say reports of a vandalism involving a meat cleaver-wielding man led to an hours-long standoff at a Redding senior-living apartment complex yesterday afternoon, Thursday, March 31. Already well known to officers due to prior violent contacts, the alleged suspect, 69-year-old Melvin Rose, was eventually arrested after exiting his home after SWAT members deployed chemical agents into […]

Wanting to die “in a blaze of glory,” armed man forces Shasta College lock-down

November 26, 2019 Trevor Montgomery

REDDING — A suicidal man who was armed with multiple firearms and told officials he wanted to “go down in a blaze of glory” was hospitalized for a mental health evaluation after a Sheriff’s hostage negotiator managed to calm the subject and convinced him to exit his parked vehicle, where he had been pointing a gun at himself and threatening […]