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| Incident report for Case#2009-174755 |
| Released 06/17/2009 at 4:51 PM by P.O. Howard Payne |
| Incident Type |
Arrested Person |
| Incident Date |
06/16/2009 - 1:05 AM |
| Address |
2200 Allied Drive |
| Suspect(s) |
See information below |
| Arrested |
Gavilan Caprice Hollerway, 26-year-old male
Charges: Disorderly Conduct - S.S. 947.01 |
| Victim |
N/A |
| Details |
On June 16th, 2009 at approximately 1:05 a.m., a Madison Police Officer was doing routine surveillance in the 2200 block of Allied Drive. The fact that a large group of individuals were gathering in this area attracted the officer’s attention, and particular note was being paid to the crowd. The officer saw a male subject, later identified as Gavilan Caprice Hollerway, pick up what was described as an 18-inch pistol gripped rifle/shotgun off of the ground. Hollerway then proceeded to point the gun towards the monitoring police officer. The officer being completely shocked by this activity started to move into a safe position, and gathered binoculars to see more clearly what exactly was in the hand of Hollerway. The officer determined, by use of binoculars, that the gun being brandished by Hollerway had some orange or red color being reflected. The officer knew that some real firearms have been disguised in a similar manner, so multiple determinations were being weighed as to the appropriate course of action to take.
Hollerway pointed the gun a few additional times towards the officer before he would be taken into custody on disorderly conduct charges. Hollerway acted as if he did not know what problem he had created by pointing this facsimile gun at a police officer, and proceeded to verbally attack the officer in an attempt to intimidate while en route to The Dane County Jail.
There are a number of incidents that occur throughout the year where officers are faced with compromising scenarios of facsimile weapons. The overriding issue of concern to police is that the possession of facsimile weapons place any officer in a compromising position of considering deadly force as a required response of protecting the community. It goes without saying that no object, especially those that are replicas of real firearms, should ever be directed toward a police officer or any other person. In keeping with recommendations that The Madison Police Department have routinely given in the past, parents should be extremely careful in allowing their children access to toys such as facsimile firearms. This particular case could have resulted in a very unfortunate event, but this conscientious officer went to additional steps to make sure the correct decision was made.
PO Howard Payne |
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