Video: Choking cloud of tear gas ends SWAT standoff in Richland

A Richland standoff ended in dramatic fashion Friday after an assault suspect was forced out of a house in a cloud of tear gas.

Video taken outside the home on the 1600 block of Woodbury Street shows the suspect walking outside with the billowing cloud of gas venting from the home behind him.

Officers ordered the man to walk backward toward them with his hands raised. Once he reached the officers, he was handcuffed and arrested.

A $250,000 arrest warrant had been issued for Nelyin Baquedano-Palma, 24, after he allegedly opened fire on a fleeing man during a fight in downtown Pasco on Oct. 1, Pasco police Capt. Brian Vaught told the Tri-City Herald.

The Tri-Cities Regional SWAT team, Pasco police Street Crimes Unit, along with the Metro Drug Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Office, found him Friday, Oct. 10, at the Richland home.

Vaught said officers tried for more than two hours to get him to come out of the home and then decided to launch gas canisters inside about 6 p.m.

Neighbors were asked to remain in their homes and avoid the area.

He was arrested and turned over to Pasco police who booked him into the Franklin County jail for first-degree assault. He is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail.

Peanuts Park shooting

On Oct. 1, police were called about 3 p.m. to Peanuts Park in downtown Pasco, after a man and woman reported they had been pepper sprayed and shot at.

Security video from the park showed Baquedano-Palma and an unnamed woman arguing with the man and woman in the park. The dispute turned physical, and Baquedano-Palma allegedly pulled a pistol out of his backpack.

The other man then started running away down an alley south of Lewis Street when Baquedano-Palma fires a shot at him, said police.

Police linked Baquedano-Palma and the woman he was with to a Ford Taurus, which was tracked to a Pasco address. They also found video of him going to a store to buy milk, which is used to treat the burning from pepper spray.