BLAINE, Minn. – (January 29, 2015) – Following up on the officer involved shooting in Blaine last week, a suspect has been arrested and charged with multiple felony counts. According to the criminal complaint, a woman was driving to pick up her mother to deliver newspapers. Lamar Allen Sullivan-Armstrong was running through the neighborhood and crashed into her car, breaking the driver’s side window. He demanded that she get out of her car and tried pulling her out of the car through the window. She struggled against him and honked her car’s horn repeatedly in order to draw attention to the situation. A neighbor heard the commotion, came out to see what was going on, and Sullivan-Armstrong let go of her.
The defendant followed the neighbor and kicked in the front door. Sullivan-Armstrong grabbed several kitchen knives, threatened the man with them, and also began to cut himself. When officers arrived at the house, Sullivan-Armstrong raised a knife and the police saw that he was going to stab them. Police told him to drop the knife and when he wouldn’t, they shot him.
Sullivan-Armstrong has been charged with two counts of first degree assault, one count of attempted aggravated robbery, two counts of burglary in the first degree and one count of assault in the second degree. The maximum sentence for all the charges combined would be 107 years in prison.
