Video: Former SWAT Officer Takes On SWAT Team

A domestic dispute between Craig Brewster Thompson, 43 and his wife resulted in a call to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department around 10:50 p.m. Thursday.

The wife left for a neighbor’s house to call authorities. She told dispatchers Thompson had been drinking wine and was armed with a gun. She said he could get more inside their home, where he had barricaded himself and the couple’s two 4-year-old twin daughters.

He said he was prepared to kill if deputies tried to get to him.

At that point, a Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) was brought in. At 3 a.m., Thompson walked out of the house, where SWAT offers Lt. Thomas Hamilton and K-9 Unit deputy R.D. Longshore were preparing to arrest him.

Thompson, who was carrying a knife and several firearms, attacked Hamilton with the knife. Longshore fired his service weapon at Thompson, who was hit and transported to Palmetto Health Richland. He was pronounced dead at 4 a.m.

Thompson was with the department from September 1989 to December 1999, when he resigned as a detective. He also had been a SWAT officer.

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