ARVADA — A SWAT team promising breakfast stormed an Arvada home on Tuesday, fatally shot a parolee and rescued the 13-year-old boy he held hostage for more than 18 hours.

Arvada police identified the hostage-taker as Don Pooley, 34, who was on the run for violating his parole. State prison officials said Pooley was released on parole on Oct. 2 but absconded on Jan. 10.

The Colorado Department of Corrections will assist Arvada’s investigation, DOC spokesman Roger Hudson said.

“We’ll track the last days he was in public — where he has been and what role that played in the last 17 hours,” Hudson said. He added that “of course” parole officers have been searching for Pooley, who was one of 722 absconders.

Arvada officers were summoned at about 5:30 p.m. Monday for a domestic disturbance between Pooley and his girlfriend. Pooley had fled by the time officers arrived, barging into a nearby home in the 6100 block of Gray Street, where he threatened to shoot the 13-year-old boy.

The boy’s mother and brother returned home a short time later and were not taken hostage, Arvada Police Chief Don Wick said. Police were already on the scene.

For the next 18 hours, Pooley held the boy captive, occasionally crying, making threats, talking with family members and using the boy’s computer, sister Shawna Pooley said.

“The boy helped him connect to the Internet,” she said.

Pooley said she spoke with her brother on the phone several times throughout the night.

“He didn’t mean for any of it to be like this,” she said. “He was crying. He didn’t want to die, but he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison, either.”

A man identifying himself as Pooley also reached out to several news outlets, including The Denver Post.

“I’m not going back to prison,” he told The Post.

Pooley and his sister spoke again about 11 a.m. as police were rushing into the home.

“I heard a gunshot,” she said. “I heard them screaming at him, ‘Get on the ground! Get on the ground!'”

Pooley had requested breakfast. His sister feared the police would use that as a set-up to capture or harm him.

Dave Dewey, who lives next door, watched as dozens of SWAT officers surrounded the home holding shields and a battering ram. They questioned Pooley. They told him to turn lights off and on and give a sign that the boy was OK. Dewey said he didn’t hear any response.

He saw an officer put something in the doorway that looked like a bomb. When it exploded, officers rushed in and carried the boy to safety. Police said he was physically unharmed.

“The officer just took him in his arms and ran him out the door,” said Dewey, whose granddaughter snapped photos and video. “From the time you heard the ‘boom’ to the time you saw (the boy) was the snap of a finger. It was a split second.”

Police said Pooley had a gun during the domestic disturbance, but they did not say whether he had a gun during the standoff.

Pooley had convictions dating to 1997 for aggravated vehicular theft, possession of marijuana, escape, possession of drug paraphernalia, forgery, vehicular eluding, possession of a weapon by a previous offender and smuggling contraband in prison, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.

Sadie Gurman: 303-954-1661, sgurman@denverpost.com or twitter.com/sgurman

Staff writers Ryan Parker and Kirk Mitchell contributed to this report.