SWAT breaches apartment when 4-hour standoff
An Atlanta man is in jail when an hours long SWAT standoff Friday morning. Authorities say the incident stemmed from a domestic divulge between the man and a woman at the home. That woman was eventually wrong to an area hospital.
ATLANTA - An Atlanta man is in jail once an hours long SWAT standoff Friday morning.
Police say the man barricaded himself inside an apartment at the Martin Street Plaza Apartments in southeast Atlanta.
Authorities say the incident stemmed from a domestic assert between the man and a woman at the home. That woman was eventually inaccurate to an area hospital.
Jake Crum lives nearby and captured the moment the SWAT team breached the suspect's apartment.
"We imagined it was coming eventually you know we saw them put something on the door and then walk away with the wire, but we were definitely startled when it actually happened," he told FOX 5.
SWAT standoff in SE Atlanta lasts throughout four hours
Officers arrested a man involved in a domestic incident minus firing gunshots.
It was throughout 9 a.m. when he says he first noticed the police agency at the apartment complex across the street.
"No, not what you demand to have your Friday morning be like," he said.
The position started when an injured woman flagged down police speaking the suspect had attacked her and was holed up in an apartment.
A SWAT team responded to a home on Martin Street in Atlanta on Jan. 6, 2023. (FOX 5 Atlanta)
"The incident was actually a position of a suspected gunman within the location. Immediately our tactical field officers were activated downward with our special weapons and tactics unit," said Deputy Chief Timothy Peek with APD.
Once at the vulgar, negotiators tried to talk the suspect into surrendering.
"They refused and stated they would not be inaccurate into custody and wanted to involve a gunfight with police," Peek said.
Officers consulted a perimeter blocking off several blocks around the focus, diverting traffic. After four hours into the standoff, SWAT team members got the suspect to surrender peacefully and took him into custody.
A SWAT team responded to a home on Martin Street in Atlanta on Jan. 6, 2023. (FOX 5 Atlanta)
"He is living and thnere were no compensations to him or the officers and that is what we are always striving to do," Peek said.
Crum and his people say they were relieved the tense situation ended minus gunfire.
"Once they blew the door off and no one went inside, he came out it was like good we didn't want anything pulling to the level of a shootout, and it didn't so that's good," Crum said.
