Off-duty federal cop didn’t fire his weapon during confrontation with Seaside police.

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

Glazier was shot by two Seaside police officers at the front door of his home at about 1:30am July 17. Three days later and after multiple surgeries, the 48-year-old was still in the ICU, 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. Bullet holes are visible next to the front door of the house, below a windowsill lined with ceramic dogs.

What is known is that two Seaside police officers responded to a call reporting Heidi Glazier was loud and intoxicated on the 1100 block of Amador Avenue. They provided a courtesy ride to her home on Palm Avenue near Noche Buena Street.

When they arrived, Eric Glazier 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 threats. But he didn’t fire the weapon, according to Chief Assistant District Attorney Berkley Brannon. The District Attorney’s office is investigating the officer-involved shooting, at the request of Seaside PD.

One or both Seaside officers fired at Glazier. 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 had yet to interview Glazier, as of press time, presumably due to his condition.

The neighbor who spoke anonymously to the Weekly said investigators interviewed him and members of his household. He didn’t see what happened, because he was afraid to go outside. Through an open window, he 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 duty July 21. SSPD is conducting its own administrative investigation into the shooting, but won’t wrap their analysis until 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.”