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Old 10-07-2021, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Chitown View Post
If anyone is interested in what happened in the lofts a Brownwood on Tuesday, there was a man with a gun holding a woman hostage. The police responded with a hostage unit and it took about two or three hours to talk him out of whatever his issues were and it was resolved peacefully. They took a lot of the residents were in the building and put them in the Trillium Recreation Center
He claimed to be armed. It was a false statement.

But SWAT handled it very well.

Below quote if from the other Villages' online news source--

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The incident took place within the jurisdiction of the Wildwood Police Department. A 65-year-old man was taken into custody around 4 p.m. He had claimed to be armed, but did not have any firearms when he eventually surrendered to police.