A Cañon City man who barricaded himself in his home early Friday morning appeared in court Monday.

Dakota Lee, 21, is facing charges of aggravated robbery, second-degree assault, menacing, false imprisonment, child abuse, criminal mischief, harassment, reckless endangerment and domestic violence.

Cañon City Police Sgt. Steven Huskey said after Friday’s incident, additional charges are pending and will be filed at a later time.

Officers responded to the area of 2485 E. Main St. at 7:20 a.m. Friday to arrest Lee on a felony warrant, but he refused to leave the residence.

Officers were able to de-escalate the situation and safely took Lee into custody just after 11 a.m.

No one was injured during this incident.

According to an arrest affidavit, the Cañon City Police Department had received notification that an assault had occurred where a gun was involved where the suspect allegedly had threatened to shoot the victim and made statements that he wanted “death by cop.”

The victim, who won’t be named because she is a victim of domestic violence, told officers that Lee had demanded that she give him money when she returned home from work at 5 p.m. Thursday.

She said Lee threatened to shoot her and then pulled out a silver pistol. She curled up in a ball on her bed while Lee punched her in the back and on her right side, the affidavit states.

The victim said Lee continued to scream at her and got on top of her and started to pull her hair. He began to choke her and when she started to cry, he covered her mouth in an attempt to smother her, the affidavit states.

“(The victim said) Dakota was shoving her face into the pillow and then continually shoved her face into the bed,” the affidavit states. “She said when she was being choked, it was extremely hard to breathe.

Lee eventually climbed off the victim but allegedly wouldn’t let her leave the room, holding her hostage with the gun.

He allegedly shattered the bedroom window by throwing an ashtray through it and then made the victim stay in the bathroom for 20 minutes. He allegedly tried to take her phone to delete the video she had taken during the assault.

“She was scared for her life and thought Dakota was going to kill her,” the affidavit states. “(The victim said) this is the second incident where Dakota has pulled a gun on her.”

The affidavit states that the incident lasted about two hours, but the victim was only able to record a few minutes of the interaction.

Cañon City Police Officer Shelby Beck, who authored the affidavit, stated that she watched the video and witnessed Lee tell the victim, “If you’re recording me dude, I’m going to shoot you” and then proceed toward the victim with the pistol in his hand. “I’m not going to play that (expletive) bro … I will (expletive) kill you right here dude. I will kill you, you better give me your phone.”

The victim told law enforcement that Lee recently had a felony menacing charge, but that it was dropped when the victim did not go to court.

Late Thursday night, a woman called dispatch stating that her daughter had found a gun in their garage on East Main Street. Lee allegedly texted a minor and asked him to meet him at his back window to talk. He allegedly gave him a black bag and told him to “take this and hide it.” The minor looked inside the bag and found the gun, then showed his sister, and together they told their mother.

Beck found a Taurus handgun 9mm inside the bag, which did have a bullet in the chamber. She also found a loaded magazine in the bag.

Friday morning, Beck and other law enforcement responded to the residence and saw Lee outside. She told Lee to “come here,” but he ran north and jumped into a back window of the trailer. He failed to comply with commands by law enforcement given through a public address system, and a perimeter was set up outside the residence.

A portion of East Main Street was closed, and area residents were evacuated during the incident as a safety precaution.

District Judge Lynette Wenner on Monday imposed a $2,000 cash-only bond, as well as a protection order. Lee also is prohibited from possessing weapons.

Lee will appear for the filing of charges at 8:30 a.m. April 15.

Carie Canterbury: 719-276-7643, canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com