Developmentally Disabled Man Asks Bank Worker For Help Loading Pellet Gun

FREMONT (BCN)



A developmentally disabled man was subdued by a police dog Wednesday after he had gone into a Fremont bank seeking help loading a newly purchased replica pellet gun, police said.



The man had bought the pellet gun Wednesday at a sporting goods store on Mowry Avenue, police said. But employees there wouldn't help the man load the pellet gun.



Police said the man then walked to a nearby bank at the corner of Mowry Avenue and Fremont Boulevard, where he asked a bank employee to help him load the pellet gun.



Police said the bank employee also refused and the developmentally disabled man then went outside, while the bank employee called police.



Officers found the man with the pellet gun at a nearby bus stop and the man did not obey commands to put the gun down, police said. Instead he allegedly put one hand inside his jacket.



A police K-9 subdued the man, who was first taken to a nearby hospital for treatment of a dog bite and then given a mental health evaluation.





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