Seth Matthew Lucas

Less-than-lethal force

At 4:44 a.m. on February 20, 2019, a woman called 911 to report that she saw a man jump out of a second floor window. There was a snowstorm at the time, and it was very cold. The woman said she believed the man was having some type of crisis and was not dressed for the weather. Seth Lucas ran to a home to which he had no previous connection. Three people were at home at that address, and at least one was awake. Lucas pounded on the front door and when a resident answered, he pushed his way into the home. He was yelling that someone was trying to kill him and breaking items. The residents called 911 and reported that Lucas was in an upstairs bathroom. Police went upstairs and found Lucas in a bedroom. Lucas was obviously in crisis, incoherent, and appeared to be unaware that the other people in the room were police officers. Officers struggled with and restrained him until he died. The medical examiner said experienced cardio-respiratory arrest following physical exertion that included a component of law enforcement subdual.