‘I’ll go John Wick on you.’ Man charged in Lakewood standoff after firing at officers
A man is facing nearly a dozen charges of first-degree assault after a brazen New Year’s Day standoff with Lakewood police in which he allegedly fired at multiple officers and his ex-girlfriend’s home, vowing to “go John Wick” on law enforcement.
Humberto Moises Andrade on Thursday was charged with 11 counts of assault while armed with a firearm, and a plea of not guilty was entered on his behalf during an arraignment in Pierce County Superior Court, according to court records. His bail was set at $700,000.
Andrade, 24, is accused of being intoxicated when he allegedly shot at the house in the 8900 block of Commercial Street Southwest during the early-morning hours Wednesday, forcing some of the home’s six occupants to flee out of a second-story window by jumping onto a mattress, charging papers said.
When officers arrived, Andrade was inside the house, according to the case’s probable-cause affidavit. After the occupants were safely out of the home, including a 99-year-old person, Andrade allegedly embarked on a six-hour-plus standoff with authorities and fired an estimated 34 shots — at least some at or in the direction of four officers who were outside.
“I knew that if I remained in the same spot I could have possibly been shot,” Lakewood police officer Dylan Warburton wrote in his police report, according to the affidavit.
Ultimately, Andrade exited the home shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday and attempted to run from a SWAT team who had taken control of the scene, but an officer used a “less lethal munition” to apprehend him, the affidavit said.
Andrade reportedly lived at the house on and off, court records show.
Inside the home, police found a handgun in a clothing hamper, an AR-style rifle in pieces on a stair landing and the slide to another handgun near a pistol case, according to the affidavit. There were multiple bullet entries around the front door knob, 11 expended shell casings in the front of the home, an intact round in a television and 18 expended shell casings in a bedroom, the report said.
It isn’t noted within the affidavit whether police returned fire.
The lengthy incident began as a domestic-violence call. Andrade’s ex-girlfriend told police that Andrade had been drinking since roughly 6 p.m. Tuesday, court records show. After he cut his hand with a broken alcohol bottle and had been walking around a Lakewood neighborhood, she picked him up and they went to the house. He later left the home, leaving his dog behind, but returned “extremely intoxicated” and sought his dog back.
When his ex-girlfriend wouldn’t allow him inside, and after she instead let the dog out the back door for fear of her safety, Andrade allegedly tried to kick down the front door, according to the affidavit. He then fired what other occupants told police sounded like 10 to 15 shots through or at the door.
Andrade’s ex-girlfriend let him in so that he would stop shooting, she said, according to the affidavit. Andrade continued to ask about his dog, despite being told it was now outside, and started throwing clothes at the victim from inside a bedroom. When he allegedly tried to put together an AR-style rifle, she was able to pull it away from him but believed that she and her mother would die when he purportedly began loading a magazine into a pistol.
Then, police arrived. They set up a containment zone around the house, seeking to coax Andrade outside willingly, court records show.
“During the negotiations, the defendant made a statement to the effect of, ‘If you hurt my dog, I’ll go John Wick on you. I’ll take out three or four of you (expletives),’” the affidavit said.
The alleged statement refers to a series of Keanu Reeves-led action films, in which the titular character, John Wick, embarks on a vengeful and murderous rampage after his dog is killed.
At one point, Andrade allegedly exited a bedroom with a handgun to his head, retrieved a ballistic rifle shield that an officer had left behind on the porch and returned inside the home, according to the affidavit. At different junctures, he purportedly threatened to set himself on fire and said he believed people in the house were trying to kill him.
During the standoff, officers evacuated nearby apartments that had almost been shot multiple times, court records show.
The charges alleged that four of the 11 counts faced by Andrade were committed against police officers. The investigation was still ongoing as late as the affidavit’s publication on Thursday.
“Detectives are determining how many other officers, if any, were also fired at during this incident,” it said. “Additional charges will be filed if more victims are identified.”
Andrade has an outstanding felony warrant out of California for possessing a controlled substance for sale, according to the affidavit.
