A hostage situation at a Brooklyn check cashing store by a lone gunman ended peacefully Saturday night after a few tense hours after the gunman surrendered. Police said the gunman entered the money transfer store- check cashing and money exchange store about 7:45 p.m., initially posing as a customer, then announced a robbery, displaying a […]
AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crackdowns on college campus protests against the war between Israel and Hamas continue. Here at home, the second protest just this week at UB North ended peacefully Friday. This comes just days after more than a dozen people were arrested at a demonstration there on Wednesday. Hundreds of pro-Palestine protestors marched […]
Apr. 25—MOULTRIE — Forced into a police standoff, authorities were able to apprehend a Moultrie resident within minutes of him retreating into an outbuilding with a loaded gun. During the initial 911 phone call, which was placed by the offender’s mother Sunday night, April 14, gunshots could be heard in the background. “The reason is […]
Mar. 27—Muskogee Police took a man into custody Wednesday after a one-hour standoff. The incident occurred in the 300 block of North Seventh Street shortly after 4 p.m. The man was barricaded in a gray Chevy Silverado truck. Several times during the standoff, police advised the man to roll down his driver’s side window and […]
A three-hour standoff between police and an armed man in a Kansas City neighborhood ended peacefully Sunday afternoon. Officers were called to a home in the 5200 block of Brooklyn Avenue around 5:25 p.m. to a report of an assault. Upon arrival, the caller said that his neighbor had verbally threatened him, according to a […]
A woman and child are safe after officials say they were held hostage for several hours. Atlanta police told Channel 2 Action News officers responded to requests for a welfare check at an apartment on Piedmont Avene NW at 9:52 p.m. Saturday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] According to the […]
Authorities responded to a Cambridge home for a report of a barricaded subject Thursday afternoon. Police say a report of a domestic dispute in the area of Fenno and Sherman Street prompted officers to surround the home around 1:30 p.m. After hours of negotiating, officials were finally able to make contact with the suspect around […]
JEFFERSON TWP. — A structure fire turned barricaded gunman incident ended peacefully late Tuesday night when a suspect surrendered to Michigan State Police troopers. The bizarre incident was first reported just after 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9, when the Jefferson Township Fire Department was dispatched to a fully engulfed camper fire at 3000 Squawfield Road […]