Fort Bragg Soldier in Fayetteville standoff facing 30 charges

UPDATE

Recordings offer more details of soldier's apartment complex standoff with Fayetteville police
By James Halpin
Staff writer

Petrified residents hid in their apartments as a gunman fired at emergency responders in a chaotic standoff between police and a Fort Bragg soldier Friday night, according to recordings of 911 calls and police radio traffic released Wednesday afternoon.

Firefighters first called police to the home of Army Staff Sgt. Joshua P. Eisenhauer, at the Austin Creek apartments at 1127 Cape Harbor Court, about 10 p.m. Friday after responding to a report of a fire, according to the recordings.

One caller told dispatchers an apartment next door was on fire, with smoke and embers blowing out of the door, but after he knocked on the door, a resident said the fire had been put out with an extinguisher. Firefighters called police for a possible forced entry when there was no answer at the door.

Just minutes after police were dispatched to the apartment, Eisenhauer started shooting from his third-floor apartment, according to the recordings.

"Multiple shots fired! Multiple shots fired!" an officer reports. "He's on the top level. He's standing on the balcony right now."

Police reported that an officer was bleeding from the head, and supervisors ordered the officers to stay back and form a perimeter. Minutes later, Eisenhauer emerged from the apartment onto the balcony, according to police radio traffic.
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Soldier in Fayetteville standoff facing 30 charges
By: JACKIE FAYE , JUSTIN QUESINBERRY , NBC17 STAFF | NBC17.com
Published: January 13, 2012

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. --
A Fort Bragg soldier is facing 30 charges after exchanging gunfire with police and barricading himself in his apartment for hours Friday night and Saturday morning.

Staff Sgt. Joshua P. Eisenhauer is charged with 15 counts of attempted first-degree murder, six counts of felony assault on a law enforcement official and nine counts of felony assault on a government official.

Eisenhauer was listed in critical condition after the gunfire exchange.

Two Fayetteville Police officers were also injured during the standoff with the soldier at an apartment complex, according to a police spokesman.

Ft. Bragg Saturday morning identified the soldier as Staff Sgt. Joshua P. Eisenhauer. He was assigned to Fort Bragg's Warrior Transition Battalion. That's a unit for wounded soldiers or soldiers transitioning out of the military, according to a Ft. Bragg spokesman.
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