The News Tribune
BY ALEXIS KRELL
Staff writer
October 23, 2014
A man who Lakewood police shot and wounded last week had a run-in with officers two weeks earlier when he was subdued by a stun gun while wielding a knife according to charging papers.
In the most recent incident, Anthony Eric Chavez, 24, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to first-degree assault, theft of a firearm and unlawful carrying or handling of weapons apparently capable of producing bodily harm.
Court Commissioner Meagan Foley set his bail at $500,000.
An attorney for Chavez was not reachable for comment Thursday.
At the hospital, Chavez asked police to apologize for his actions to Lee. He said he took the gun from a friend’s apartment at the complex, and was trying to shoot himself as Lee arrived, but couldn’t get the gun to fire.
The mother of Chavez’s children told police he was hit by shrapnel while in the Army and suffered a traumatic brain injury and has post traumatic stress disorder. He started drinking heavily and taking illegal drugs after his injury, and refused his medications, she said.
She told police he had tried to kill himself multiple times.
The day he was shot, Chavez met with her, gave her his dog tags and wallet, and told her to give them to their son, the woman said.
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