I was reading the sun chronicle and they had a story about an 83 year old man. Supposedly he wouldn't come out of his house after emt's came to his house for a call, and saw a rifle on his lap.
All I can picture is the police acting like they have the next bin laden, and shutting down streets, evacuating the whole neighborhood. Only to have the guy fall asleep on them.
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NORTH ATTLEBORO – An 83-year-old Bank Street man was hospitalized following a six-hour overnight standoff with police that ended this morning without incident when he fell asleep.
The incident started around 10:30 p.m. Sunday when firefighters responded to the home for a medical call.
Responding firefighters found the man in a chair with a rifle across his lap and left the house with the man's wife, police Capt. Joseph DiRenzo said.
Police responded and the man, whose name was not released, came to the front door armed with two rifles. Police talked with the man and evacuated four nearby homes, DiRenzo said.
Between 10 and 15 residents who had to leave their homes were allowed to stay at the police department's emergency operations center while the standoff continued.
After trying to convince the man to lay down the weapons and surrender without success, police shot him at least two times with a bean bag gun, but he ran back upstairs carrying one of the rifles and refused to surrender, DiRenzo said.
The state police SWAT team then responded with a K-9 unit and an armored vehicle police used to safely get close to the house to continue negotiating over a loud speaker, DiRenzo said.
All I can picture is the police acting like they have the next bin laden, and shutting down streets, evacuating the whole neighborhood. Only to have the guy fall asleep on them.
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