PINE GROVE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Bodycam video provides a better take a look at a Friday standoff the place Van Buren County deputies say a person ignited pipe bombs.
The incident occurred outdoors of Gobles locally of Kendall.
Morgan Scott Parish, 58, was charged with a number of felony prices, together with terrorism. His bond was set at $5 million. Deputies have been finishing up a warrant on a property in search of Parish after he skipped a sentencing listening to in St Joseph County, mentioned Van Buren County Undersheriff Casey Davis on Friday. Deputies tracked Parish right down to a motor residence parked behind an individual’s home on Nation Highway 388 close to twelfth Avenue in Pine Grove Township.
In physique digital camera video, deputies strategy the RV and gave a number of instructions for Parish to get out. After no response, one deputy breaks a window to test inside. He strikes to interrupt open the door when the primary blast is heard.
Deputies rush for canopy whereas white smoke will be seen seeping out of the RV as one other growth is heard. For a number of transient moments, a person comes out of the RV earlier than working again inside. For greater than an hour, deputies surrounded the RV and referred to as out to Parish via a loudspeaker.
Deputies later name for the Kalamazoo Division of Public Security bomb squad.
“He appears to be holding a pipe bomb. Central (dispatch), I need KDPS bomb squad,” mentioned a name via the radio.
In the course of the standoff, officers mentioned Parish threatened officers and mentioned he wouldn’t return to jail. A voice will be heard off-camera saying that deputies are in a “danger zone.”
A deputy tries to persuade Parish to give up.
“Well, Morgan, you haven’t heard anybody here,” the deputy mentioned.
“I know. Yet,” mentioned Parish.
Van Buren County SWAT workforce later arrives, driving a Humvee towards the RV.
Within the video, officers transfer in to fireplace tear fuel into the RV from one facet of the home whereas one other officer stands prepared with less-than-lethal bean bag rounds on the different facet of the home. After tear fuel is deployed, Parish tells deputies to kill him and threatens to detonate one other bomb. Extra tear fuel goes off and the less-than-lethal rounds are shot.
The deputy sporting the physique digital camera warns others of a pipe bomb blast.
“Get ready, it’s there,” he mentioned within the video.
A pipe bomb goes off with a cloud of smoke. Officers mentioned Parish was shot with less-lethal rounds after throwing one other bomb at officers.
“Alright, I give, I give, I give,” Parish mentioned within the video.
After a two-hour standoff, Parish surrenders to police and is taken to the hospital. He was charged Monday.
In response to court docket information, Parish was charged with eight counts of assault with an try and homicide, three prices of bomb possession with illegal intent, three counts of manufacture, possession of an explosive or incendiary machine with malicious intent, two counts of obstructing an officer, one cost of ammunition possession by a prohibited individual, one depend of Recurring offender fourth offense.
His subsequent listening to is anticipated later this month. St. Joseph County court docket information present that Parish pled responsible to a drug and weapons possession cost earlier this 12 months. He failed to look on June 5 with a bench warrant issued on June 11.
