PORT ANGELES — A man who police suspected had shot another person defied a half-dozen Port Angeles officers, a state trooper and a Clallam County sheriff’s deputy Sunday afternoon as they covered him with weapons ranging from service pistols to an assault rifle.
Officers answered a report that one person had shot another in the leg at Front and Oak streets.
The caller said both shooter and victim were still at the scene.
Police found Solomon Jacobs, 27, of Port Angeles wearing a bandanna-style mask as he sat in the bed of a white pickup truck.
Jacobs refused police orders to raise his hands and cursed officers for about 15 minutes after he left the truck and perched on a metal fence on Oak Street above the Budget Ferry Parking lot.
“Shoot me!” he taunted them.
Jacobs was taken into custody by Cpl. Jason Viada, who climbed the fence behind him. No one was injured.
The shooting report — an unknown male’s 9-1-1 call that had originated from a pay phone near the scene — was unfounded, police said. A check of local hospitals turned up no gunshot victims.
The driver of the truck, David Gallagher, and a passenger, Sarah Summit, both of Port Angeles, also were arrested and detained briefly before they were released.
