Update: Officers apprehend attempted homicide suspect after 5-hour stand-off
Staff report
Updated at 11:15 p.m. after Lee was apprehended.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officers were in the 2900 block of NE 12th Street for about five hours tonight in an effort to apprehend a barricaded attempted homicide suspect.
At about 9:45 p.m. Monday night, officers were dispatched to the Circle K in the 3800 block of N. Main Street and found an adult male with multiple stab wounds. As of this writing, the victim is still alive.
According to GPD, the victim was able to give officers general information about where he was stabbed, and a GPD K-9 team conducted an article search and found a possible crime scene on NE 12th Street. Detectives continued the investigation and developed probable cause to arrest Torrance Lee, 38.
At about 6 p.m. tonight, officers responded to a home in the 2900 block of NE 12th Street after Lee’s parents called 911 and said their son, Torrance Lee, was behaving in an erratic manner. Officers immediately recognized that the call was connected to the stabbing on Monday night, and numerous officers responded to the home, where Lee barricaded himself in a bedroom. Lee is believed to have a knife.
Members of the Negotiation Response Team (NRT) and SWAT team were at the scene.
GPD requested an RTS bus to safely accommodate the family and friends of Lee.
Lee has been arrested six times since 2020 for domestic battery, but all of the charges have been dropped. He has four felony convictions (all violent) and four misdemeanor convictions (three violent) and has served two state prison sentences.
Why is he out walking then? Lock him up and keep him there.
Listened to the incident. The GPD did a very good job, the on-scene Lieutenant professionally managed to situation.
GPD isn’t the problem. It’s the local useless judicial branch and connected NGO campaign donors who are.
Almost sounds like a real mental health issue. Maybe Schizophrenic. but I am not a doctor, was just in a relationship with someone who was later to be diagnosed. Those behaviors are the scariest for loved ones.
Sadly much psychoses was triggered by past drug abuse. Nancy Reagan was right.
Another section 8 crime breeding farm our taxes support for lawyers’ skool loan payoffs, perhaps??
This would not have happened if our State’s Attorney and Judges had did their job and had placed him where he belongs. Now another person has become a victim of Alachua Co. swinging door judicial system.
This is what happens when your State Attorney’s office is run as if it were in Portland
I don’t understand the part about an RTS bus being brought in to accommodate the perp’s friends and family…?
They sat in the bus during the stand-off.
“Arrested 6 times since 2020 for domestic battery, but all of the charges have been dropped.” Can’t see any problem here.
4 felony convictions, all violent, and 4 missy’s 3 violent.
But, mental illness is his plea bargain!
I’m cray cray boss!
Let him out! See what happens, never stopped the 8th Judicial circuit before. And wheres the part about the judge and the first appearance hearing? It ain’t here.
The “victim” musta been an African American.
The first appearance was this morning, after that article was written. Another article is coming soon.