Flagstaff police used a Taser to arrest a man who allegedly tried to force his way into the attached apartment behind a motel office early Wednesday while threatening to kill the owners.

According to police reports, the man knocked on the door of the Howard Johnson, 3300 E. Route 66, at about 2:50 a.m. and one of the owners, thinking he wanted to check into the motel, came out to assist him.

According to police, the man then walked behind the counter and asked the owner if she had a gun, because he said people were after him. When the owner told him no, he grabbed a pair of scissors and threatened her with them, saying he would kill her if she did not produce a gun.

The owner fled into her adjacent apartment while the man banged on the door and tried to break in, reports stated.

A pair of officers approached the man via the motel lobby, and as he walked toward them, he threw a hammer at the officers and charged them, getting into a brief fist fight with one of the two. The other officer stunned the man with his Taser, which allowed them to subdue and arrest him.

Quinten Shaw, 41, of Holbrook, was booked into Coconino County jail and charged with four counts of aggravated assault, resisting arrest, threatening and intimidating, residential trespass and disorderly conduct.

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