SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane Valley pastor who was shot dead by a police officer because he was brandishing a gun in August had more than 21 incidents in which police were called in, a newspaper found.
The Spokesman Review reports that that police records show that Pastor Wayne Scott Creach was known to police to hold theft suspects at gunpoint and once apprehended a fleeing man several blocks away by threatening to “blow his head off.”
The 21 contacts with Creach or his business, the Plant Farm, with Spokane County Sheriff’s Office happened over five years. Some of the contacts were for simple business checks or civil papers, and two were for prowl checks.
Creach’s family has said that he complied to officer’s commands to drop the weapons before he was shot. The shooting is still under investigation.
