The man who jumped off the roof of his home and ran in an effort to avoid police Tuesday evening was taken to a hospital for mental evaluation and may be charged criminally, Xenia Police Sgt. Scott Beegle said.
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Inducing panic is the charge likely to be pursued, he said, but the Greene County Prosecutor's Office will review the case. Beegle said it was more important to get the man, believed to be 30, to a hospital for a mental evaluation.
Police have dealt with him in the past, the sergeant said, without going into details.
Monday, someone in the home on Chinook Court called police about 2:35 p.m. about a man possibly armed with knives who had barricaded himself in an upstairs bedroom, Beegle said. The 9-1-1 caller said the man was tearing pictures off a wall in the home.
When police arrived, the man was on the roof already, having climbed out a second-story window, tearing off shingles and trying to tear off a metal flue, Beegle said. The man did not have any weapons.
About two hours into the standoff, Beegle said, the man began to engage with Xenia police crisis negotiators. He asked for a cigarette and police began to use that request to try and coax him off the roof.
"He beat us to the jump and jumped off the roof," Beegle said.
Several officers apprehended the man after a brief foot chase during which he suffered some cuts and bruises.
"We were just waiting him out," Beegle said, noting the man was not a harm to himself or anyone else.
Police were waiting him out because they didn't want him to fall off the roof, the sergeant said.
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