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Baby Crazy

Prosecutors have filed harassment charges again Club Heaven owner Paul Liddane after he allegedly threatened to shoot staff, his wife, and his newborn child at the Group Health birthing center on Capitol Hill last week.

From Capitolhillseattle.com:

“I don’t give a shit what happens. I am coming there with a gun,” police say Liddane told a Group Health nurse on the phone as his wife was going into labor at the facility. “I will shoot anybody that gets in my way. I will watch my baby be born. Then I will shoot my baby, my wife, and then myself. So get ready. I hope you have some guns ready.”

The nurse told police she could hear the sound of ammunition being loaded into a magazine during the Thursday, May 6th call.

Earlier in the day, Liddane called 911 to report that his wife was being held hostage at Group Health and he needed help having her transferred to another hospital, according to the court documents. Liddane told the operator he was not allowed to enter Group Health because he had threatened to kill staff. When the operator told Liddane police were not going to be able to help him transfer his wife, Liddane became enraged and said, “So what I have to do is take a gun and shoot people to get my wife.”




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