The scene of Friday’s officer-involved shooting and standoff with 53-year-old suspect and ex-convict, Daniel Jolliffe, at the Broadmoor Manor apartment complex near Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood, was chaotic. Body-worn cameras revealed three Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers, who responded to the 911 domestic violence call, found a woman screaming after being shot in her back. As they tried to help her, Jolliffe ran upstairs to the second-floor unit and started firing a handgun at the officers through a window. Officers returned fire before retreating for cover with the victim.
However, during the critical moments during the hours-long standoff with Jolliffe—who was armed and actively shooting from inside the apartment, police said—SPD was forced to scramble and call other law enforcement agencies to ask for reinforcements, including technology like drones to surveil the scene and open a line of communication with Jolliffe.
“Some of our partnering agencies had a drone trying to determine whether we could see or communicate with him,” SPD Chief Shon Barnes said, who was at the scene…