Police at standoff in Cherry Hill; school locked down
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UPDATE: Police say the standoff is over -- the 31-year-old female has been released and the 20-year-old man is in custody. According to family members of the woman who spoke with The Sun, she called and urged them to come get her. "I heard, 'Get down on the floor,' and the phone went dead," the woman's mother said. As police set up a crime scene several blocks away, her family sat in an SUV with the woman's children less than a block away from the hostage scene, watching officers set up around the house. Police say a semi-automatic handgun was recovered from the suspect, who has not been identified because he has not yet been charged.
ORIGINAL POST: Baltimore police are at the scene of a standoff in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of South Baltimore. Preliminary reports from police indicate that a man his holding a female companion against her will inside a house in the 2700 block of Berea Road.
There is no word yet on whether the man is armed. SWAT officers are positioned around the house and several streets are closed. The standoff began about 10:30 a.m. In addition, students at the Arundel Elementary/Middle School are in in lock down.
"They’re just not letting people in and out until police clear the activity, and get a handle on what’s going on,” a city school spokeswoman told The Sun's city schools reporter, Erica Green. Our police reporter, Justin Fenton, is at the scene and we'll have more updates here and on the Baltimore Sun website.
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Posted by: jon smith | March 25, 2011 4:50 PM