Off-duty federal cop didn't fire his weapon in confrontation with Seaside police; Seaside cops back on duty.

To get to Eric Glazier’s hospital room in the intensive care unit at Natividad Medical Center, visitors have to wend through a maze of doors and medical equipment. Blue and clear tubes connect several machines to Glazier, where as of Monday afternoon, medical staff said he was unable to speak or receive any visitors.

Glazier was shot in a confrontation with two Seaside police officers at his front door at about 1:30am Friday morning, July 17. After multiple surgeries, the 48-year-old was still in the ICU three days later, supine on his bed as a hospital staffer poured one bag of liquid into another.

“He’s hanging in,” says his wife, Heidi Glazier. Her own condition, she says, is the same: “Hanging in.”

The details around the shooting and the circumstances leading up to it are still hazy, but three days later, two bullet holes are visible next to the front door of the house, below a windowsill lined with ceramic dogs.

What we do know is that two Seaside police officers responded to a call reporting Heidi was loud and intoxicated on the 1100 block of Amador Avenue. They provided a courtesy escort home, giving her a ride just a few blocks home to Palm Avenue, near Noche Buena Street.

When they arrived, her husband came to the door with a gun in his hand. “He displayed a gun,” District Attorney Dean Flippo says.

Investigators haven’t yet said what he did with that gun, if he pointed it at anyone or made any threats. He didn’t fire the gun, according to Chief Assistant District Attorney Berkley Brannon. The District Attorney’s office is investigating this officer-involved shooting, at the request of Seaside PD. (That’s customary for all Monterey County police departments, except Salinas PD, which generally conducts its own investigations.)

One or both Seaside officers fired at Glazier, as his front door. A neighbor says the sound of gunshots woke him. He called 911, not realizing police were already on the scene—and in fact, the source of the gunfire.

DA investigators interviewed both officers over the weekend, but have yet to interview Glazier, as of press time, presumably due to his condition.

The neighbor who spoke anonymously to the Weekly said investigators had interviewed him and members of his household. He didn’t see what happened, because they were afraid to go outside, but through an open window, heard Glazier say, “I can’t feel my legs.” Meanwhile, he heard Heidi scream at the cops for shooting “one of your own.”

Glazier is a federal police lieutenant at Naval Support Activity Monterey, the military installation that provides infrastructure, roads and security for the Naval Postgraduate School and Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center.

Glazier started working as a federal cop on Sept. 1, 1997. "He has a long history here and a good reputation," NSAM spokesperson Melinda Larson says.

Glazier was off duty when he was shot.

The district attorney hasn’t yet filed any charges, as their investigation is still ongoing.

Both officers were on administrative leave for three days, and returned to full duty July 21. SSPD is conducting its own internal administrative investigation into the shooting, but won’t wrap their own analysis until after the DA completes a report.

“We review policy and training,” SSPD Deputy Chief Louis Lumpkin says. “Did we adhere to our policies, do we need to do training? There are some internal checks and balances we go through.”