Jan 31, 2008 1:39 pm US/Eastern
Baltimore City Standoff Ends With Arrests
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A standoff with Baltimore City Police ends with one man in the hospital and another under arrest.
A standoff with Baltimore City Police ends with one man in the hospital and another under arrest.
It all went down in West Baltimore where police say the men held the neighborhood at bay for hours.
Mary Bubala has more on what happened.
One suspect gave up before police used tear gas to go into a West Baltimore rowhouse where a second suspect was taken into custody.
From
Sky Eye Chopper 13, you could see Baltimore City Police remove a male suspect from the rowhouse he was barricaded in for more than three hours.
Just before that, another suspect turned himself in before SWAT teams turned to tear gas.
"We had to go in and pull out the second suspect without any injuries to himself or to our officers," said Troy Harris, Baltimore City Police spokesperson.
The suspects have been identified as 35-year-old Nathaniel Bryson of Woodlawn and 37-year-old Terry Richards of Randallstown.
The arrests ended a siege that started around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Organized crime officers on patrol saw several people running from the rowhouse in the 1700-block of Harlem Avenue.
"While there they heard gunshots coming from inside this house. They found one person that had happened to be shot. That person was taken to a local hospital," Harris said.
The victim is a 25-year-old from South Baltimore, who suffered a gunshot wound to the wrist. Police are interviewing the victim Thursday afternoon.
At one point, five schools were placed on lockdown. Students weren't allowed to come out and no one was allowed to come in.
At the Baltimore Talent Development High School only a few blocks from the barricade scene, hundreds of students were eventually allowed to go home.
"Our whole classes were panicking. You could hear screaming and everything and we were all on our phone and they wouldn't allow the parents in the building to get their own children so it was really scary," said Jamie Sturgill.
Both suspects face unspecified charges. People believe the motive for the initial shooting a home invastion robbery.
Four witnesses were taken into custody for questioning. This is still considered an active investigation.
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