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Vancouver hotel worker attacked with tazer gun
05/18/2003
By JOHN FLICK and ANTONIA GIEDWOYN, KGW Staff
A housekeeper at a Vancouver hotel was assaulted by a man using a tazer gun, police said.
The 18-year-old victim is alright, but police are still looking for the attacker.
The unusual attack happened Saturday afternoon at the Residence Inn Hotel. A housekeeper was cleaning a bathroom in a vacant room around 2 p.m. when a man with a weapon walked in and shot her in the back.
A law-enforcement official demonstrates how a tazer gun is used. (KGW photo)
Sometimes used by police officers, tazer guns shoot sharp prongs attached to wiring. The prongs send surges of electricity through the body, temporarily incapacitating the person shot.
“We're assuming he was trying to overpower her,†said Officer Kathy McNicholas with Vancouver Police.
Police say the man attacked the woman, but somehow she was able to fight back.
“She thought she may have pinched or scratched him in the facial area,†said McNicholas.
The perpetrator ran away.
This isn’t the first time an employee has been attacked at The Residence Inn.
Last year a young woman working at the front desk was raped after a man walked into the hotel and forced her into a back room. That victim was also 18-years-old.
The attacker in that incident did not use a tazer gun, but descriptions of the suspects are similar.
The April 2002 attacker was described as a white man, 6 feet tall, with a stocky build, broad shoulders and short, dark hair.
Police say Saturday’s suspect was also a white man, 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds, in his late 40’s, wearing a baseball cap and dark glasses.
Detectives have kept the prongs and wiring from the tazer gun; they will try to trace them back to the weapon owner.
According to law enforcement officials, it’s not illegal to own a tazer gun.
Vancouver hotel worker attacked with tazer gun
05/18/2003
By JOHN FLICK and ANTONIA GIEDWOYN, KGW Staff
A housekeeper at a Vancouver hotel was assaulted by a man using a tazer gun, police said.
The 18-year-old victim is alright, but police are still looking for the attacker.
The unusual attack happened Saturday afternoon at the Residence Inn Hotel. A housekeeper was cleaning a bathroom in a vacant room around 2 p.m. when a man with a weapon walked in and shot her in the back.
A law-enforcement official demonstrates how a tazer gun is used. (KGW photo)
Sometimes used by police officers, tazer guns shoot sharp prongs attached to wiring. The prongs send surges of electricity through the body, temporarily incapacitating the person shot.
“We're assuming he was trying to overpower her,†said Officer Kathy McNicholas with Vancouver Police.
Police say the man attacked the woman, but somehow she was able to fight back.
“She thought she may have pinched or scratched him in the facial area,†said McNicholas.
The perpetrator ran away.
This isn’t the first time an employee has been attacked at The Residence Inn.
Last year a young woman working at the front desk was raped after a man walked into the hotel and forced her into a back room. That victim was also 18-years-old.
The attacker in that incident did not use a tazer gun, but descriptions of the suspects are similar.
The April 2002 attacker was described as a white man, 6 feet tall, with a stocky build, broad shoulders and short, dark hair.
Police say Saturday’s suspect was also a white man, 6 feet tall, weighing about 200 pounds, in his late 40’s, wearing a baseball cap and dark glasses.
Detectives have kept the prongs and wiring from the tazer gun; they will try to trace them back to the weapon owner.
According to law enforcement officials, it’s not illegal to own a tazer gun.
