Fort Bragg soldier faces multiple charges after shootout with Fayetteville police

Fort Bragg soldier faces multiple charges after shootout with Fayetteville police
Jan 16, 2012
By Paul Woolverton
Staff writer

Kimberly Brown was relaxing in her west Fayetteville apartment with some television Friday night when she smelled smoke and saw firetrucks come through the gate into the complex's parking lot.

In the next 30 minutes, she heard pounding footsteps, men banging on doors, water spraying the outside of her apartment building and gunfire.

Brown's upstairs neighbor, Fort Bragg Army Staff Sgt. Joshua Paul Eisenhauer, was involved in a shootout and standoff with police. He ended up critically injured and charged with 30 felonies, including 15 counts of attempted first-degree murder.

Two police officers suffered minor injuries. One was treated at the scene, the other at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, police said.

And Brown spent the night in a Fayetteville fire station.

The incident started about 10 p.m. Friday when someone reported a fire at Austin Creek Apartments on Capeharbor Court, which is off 71st School Road between Raeford Road and Cliffdale Road, the Police Department said.

Brown said firefighters knocked on residents' doors, asking if they had a fire in their units.

She saw two go up to the third floor, she said, and then heard them talking to Eisenhauer, asking him to open the door.

He refused, Brown said.
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