A dad is in prison in the wake of losing an arm wrestling challenge to his young child which prompted a shooting and an 8-hour deadlock with the police.
The episode happened on July 6 in no time before 1 a.m. in the first part of the day when Boone County Sheriff's Office appointees were dispatched to Florence, Kentucky, around a 20-minute drive southwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, to a report of an individual in a home with a weapon.
At the point when specialists showed up, they discovered two relatives had cleared the premises securely and were safe however 55-year-old Curtis Zimmerman was as yet inside the home and rejected orders to come out, as indicated by an announcement by the Boone County Sheriff's Office.
“Deputies learned that Zimmerman was intoxicated and challenged his juvenile son to an arm-wrestling contest,” said Boone County Sheriff’s Office. “When Zimmerman lost multiple times, he became agitated which led to a physical altercation with his son.”
Zimmerman then allegedly got a weapon and discharged two shots in the house as his child was going upstairs.
It isn't known whether Zimmerman was focusing on his child, whose identity and age, other than that he has been recognized as an adolescent by specialists, has not been unveiled, yet he would later tell specialists that he discharged the shots into the roof, as indicated by the Boone County Sheriff's Office.
The suspect along these lines wouldn't tune in to orders from the police to come out of the house which brought about a 8-hour deadlock with specialists.
The Boone County Sheriff's Office said that Zimmerman was the main individual inside the home during the deadlock.
The Boone County Sheriff's Office Hostage Negotiation Team talked with Zimmerman for the duration of the morning and eventually arranged his protected acquiescence roughly 8 hours after the fact at 8:25 a.m. on the morning of July 6.
The speculate was then arrested without incident by individuals from the Boone County Sheriff's Office SWAT Team and the Florence Police Department SWAT Team.
