Man Armed With Machete Throws Urine at Police From Rooftop
By Dale Hines
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
June 13, 2025
MOBILE Ala. An unusual and somewhat bizarre scene played on atop a gas station in Mobile just after midnight.
Police were called on Wednesday to the Murphy Gas Station near Highway 90 in Tillmans Corner. Officers were told by dispatchers that a man had climbed on top of the roof of the gas station and that he was armed with a machete.
When officers arrived, they found the man, later identified as Brett Kraft Jr. wielding a machete and yelling.
“At that point we knew there was a situation unfolding there that we needed some extra resources,” says Blake Brown, a spokesperson for the Mobile Police.
The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department were called to the scene and responded with a ladder truck and an engine company and SWAT officers were also called to the scene.
Altapointe mental health counselors, and the K-9 police units also responded.
But Brown says those extra resources still did not convince Kraft to come down.
“He began threatening harm towards our officers,” says Brown.
Threatening officers not only verbally, but also with bodily harm.
“There was a bottle of urine that the subject threw down on to the firefighters on scene,” says Brown.
Brown says at some point, police made it onto the roof, but that resulted in a SWAT officer being injured and transported to the hospital. The SWAT officer was struck in the face with the machete.
That officer, who has not been named, is recovering from a broken nose and other facial injuries tonight.
As the standoff continued, mental health staff and police tried to convince Kraft to surrender. Police eventually subdued him and took him into custody.
After the incident, Kraft was transported to the hospital for evaluation.
Once cleared by mental health professionals, Kraft will face a slew of criminal charges including aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, assault, assault with bodily fluids, and criminal mischief.
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