Man in custody after police standoff at SW Dade home
MIAMI - A man was taken into custody after a police standoff at a southwest Miami-Dade home.
According to police, just after 12:30 a.m., officers were sent to the residence at 15450 SW 75th Circle Lane for a domestic-related incident. There they found out a man was barricaded inside and was refusing to come out.
A neighbor, Gabriella Cassini, said she heard he may have been armed.
"Around 4 a.m. I got a knock on the door, I didn't think anything of it so I fell back asleep. At six in the morning, I got a wake-up call from my stepdad, there was a cop outside our door saying that there was a man keeping his wife captive, planning on killing her and killing himself after. Then after I found out around 4 a.m. she was able to escape by jumping off the balcony and now the man is in the attic with a rifle barricaded," said Cassini.
Negotiators spoke with the man for hours, urging him to give himself up. Police said he was taken into custody without incident. Charges are pending the outcome of the police investigation.
No injuries were reported.