Broward Sheriff SWAT standoff at Oakland Park hotel
FORT LAUDERDALE - A man is in custody following a Broward Sheriff's SWAT situation at an Oakland Park hotel.
It happened at the Fort Lauderdale Grand Hotel on NW 9th Avenue, near the intersection of Commercial Boulevard and Powerline Road.
According to the sheriff's office, they got a call just before 1 a.m. of gunfire at the hotel.
Arriving deputies set up a perimeter and, while on scene, multiple shots were fired out of a window at the hotel in their direction. No one was struck.
The sheriff's office said a SWAT team was sent to the hotel along with members of the department's Violent Crimes and Crime Scene Unit.
Following a standoff and additional rounds fired by the shooting suspect, SWAT was able to safely take him into custody.
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