Updated: Two Arrested in SWAT Standoff

Two men are in police custody and two local schools previously on lockdown have resumed normal activity, following a more than six-hour SWAT standoff at the Tempo Cabana apartment complex on Curtis Drive near North Druid Hills Road in Brookhaven.

No one was injured and police did not discharge their weapons, but SWAT remained on the scene until officers determined the area was safe, said DeKalb County Police Asst. Chief Lisa Gassner.

Gassner said around 5 a.m., police responded to gunfire at an apartemnt at 210 Curtis Drive. When the uniformed officers pulled into the complex, she said officers heard rounds of gunfire and thought they were being fired upon.

When SWAT arrived, it took police several minutes to get someone from the apartment to respond because everyone in the apartment was asleep, Gassner said. Finally, after several minutes of officers yelling into a bullhorn urging movement from the apartment, a woman and a man awoke, spoke to officers and exited the apartment with a small child.

Gassner said it was later determined that the gunfire heard was celebratory gunfire and that there were no hostages or evidence of an argument or fight preceeding the incident.

The SWAT team retreated around 11:15 a.m. Charges of the two men are pending the investigation of detectives who were searching the apartment this afternoon.

The children at Woodward Elementary and Cross Keys High School were safe and lockdown status was lifted around Noon.