A SWAT team had to rescue a suspect who attempted to leap from a 12th-floor apartment with a dead person inside of it after the jumper got tangled up after falling just a few feet, according to police.
Boston cops on Sunday showed up to 35 Northampton St. in the South End shortly after 8 p.m., a residential tower, after a call to check on the wellbeing of a resident on the 12th floor.
Officers, the department said on Monday, knocked on the door and, after not receiving a response, “gained entry” to the apartment and found “a victim” dead inside.
Cops figured out there was someone else holed up in the apartment, and the police called in a “Code 99” — the special-incident designation for a barricaded person, according to the department.
“Boston SWAT officers entered the apartment and were met with a physical threat,” the department wrote about what then unfolded. “Officers used de-escalation tactics and eventually use of less lethal force was deployed by officers.”
Then, police said, the person “dove out a 12th floor window but was caught up,” hanging below it.
The SWAT team headed down to the 11th floor underneath and pulled the suspect in through that unit’s window.
The suspect was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
No other information was immediately available. The cops continue to investigate, and they encourage anyone with information to call the homicide detectives at 617-343-4470.
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