deputies during a domestic-violence call Monday night was intoxicated
but cooperative and had agreed to leave the house before he opened
fire, according to the sheriff’s department.
The suspect,
Deputy
Sgt.
Hausner is married, with a daughter, 14, and a son, 12.
The deputies were responding to a report of an “unwanted guest” at Crable’s brother’s home near
Everyone in the house was cooperative, and the
deputies had talked Crable into leaving with them. They offered him a
ride, Troyer said.
Crable went upstairs to get clothes. When he came
back downstairs, he opened fire on deputies “from 3, 4, 5 feet away,”
Troyer said. Crable fired 10 rounds at the deputies, he said.
“One brother basically ambushed our deputies,” he said.
Mundell returned fire, killing Crable.
“There’s not going to be an answer that makes any
sense, other than that he wanted to kill these officers,” Troyer said.
“It was emotion filled with alcohol and violence.”
Tuesday, a bulletproof vest was on the ground outside the home.
“It did stop a couple rounds, did what it’s supposed
to do,” Troyer said. “But there’s parts of the body that’s not covered
by bulletproof vests.”
A 16-year-old girl, identified as Crable’s daughter, also was in the house.
After gunfire erupted, the girl and Crable’s brother
dragged Hausner into an adjoining room, barred the door, began first
aid and called 911, said Troyer.
“They went out of their way to help him,” Troyer said.
Neighbors also gave aid to the wounded deputies.
Neither the daughter nor brother was injured, and both are cooperating with investigators.
The domestic-violence call involved the girl, but
details were sketchy Tuesday morning, Troyer said. He said there was a
no-contact in place order barring Crable from his daughter.
It wasn’t immediately known if the girl was staying with her uncle.
Sheriff’s deputies had been at the
“We have no idea why he lashed out at us …” Troyer said. “There’s not going to be an answer that satisfies anybody.”
Crable had a contentious relationship with his
family, resulting in multiple domestic-violence restraining orders
against him, according to
In those documents, Crable is described as suicidal
in spring 2007 and violent with his mother and daughter. Crable pleaded
guilty to a weapons charge in
Crable shared a home with his mother in
house, and there were three cops with their guns drawn ordering this
guy to the ground.” Brown said. “We wondered what we got into.”
When Crable returned, about a month later, he didn’t
talk much about the arrest, except to say that he and his brother had
gotten into a fight, Brown recalled. The night of his return, Crable
and Brown had a few beers in Brown’s garage. “He pulled me off to the
side and asked me if I’d watch his house. I said sure, and he asked me
if I had a gun.”
At that point Brown said Crable pulled a
semi-automatic gun from a holster under his shirt and handed it to him,
telling him it was loaded.
“That weirded me out,” Brown said.
After Crable left, Brown said he took the weapon
into his house, removed the magazine, ejected the round in the chamber,
and stored the gun and magazine in separate places.
When Crable came back a few weeks later, he asked for the weapon and Brown gave it back.
Crable slipped the magazine back in the gun and
slipped it into his waistband, saying, “Man, you’ve got to have it
loaded,” Brown recalled.
Monday night’s shootings come less than a month
after the deadliest attack on law-enforcement in the state’s history,
when four police officers from
