ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. — An Elizabethtown man was arrested Sunday night after a standoff with police that lasted more than six hours, Elizabethtown Police Department said.
Around 1:30 p.m., Officer Brian Mixon responded to a possible domestic call at an apartment on Wellington Way, according to an arrest warrant provided by the Elizabethtown Police Department.
When he arrived, he knocked and announced his presence, but no one answered the door. After a short time, a woman who had blood on her face ran out of the apartment. According to the warrant, she told the officer that Cooke had a gun and he had hit her in the head with it. She also told the officer that Cooke had “several more guns” in the apartment.
Other officers arrived and surrounded the apartment as Mixon said he attempted to convince Cooke to leave. After some time, another officer saw a man leave the rear garage door of the apartment and get into a truck. Mixon said he and another officer yelled at Cooke to get out of the vehicle, but he refused. Cooke sped out of the driveway and cut through the front lawn of a nearby building, nearly hitting multiple cars and cruisers, according to the warrant.
Other officers pursued Cooke while Mixon stayed with the woman, who he said was in a state of shock. She let the officer into the apartment and claimed that Cooke had kept her locked in a downstairs room. Mixon said he found several blood droplets in the garage.
Officers pursued Cooke to a building on S. Miles Street where he barricaded himself around 4 p.m., according to a statement from Elizabethtown Police. The department urged the public to avoid the area and shut down several streets.
Cooke’s arrest citation said that while officers from the Elizabethtown Police Department Special Response Team were engaged in the standoff, Cooke fired a compound bow at an officer, the arrow striking near the officer’s head. The force of impact from the arrow took a divot out of a concrete block, according to the citation, but the officer was not injured.
While speaking to the Crisis Negotiation Team, Cooke admitted to shooting the arrow and “apologized for his actions,” the citation said.
Just after 10 p.m., Cooke was taken into custody. He has been charged with assault, evading police, unlawful imprisonment, wanton endangerment and attempted murder of a police officer.
According to the News-Enterprise, Cooke's bond has been set at $255,000.
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