UPDATE: SWAT Team Diffuses Standoff on Broadway, Suspect ID'd

A SWAT team a used a smoke bomb to snuff out a suspect barricaded in an East Somerville apartment Monday night.

Demetrius Tragiou, 30, was taken to Mass General hospital after police, armed with rifles and protected by bullet proof vests, rushed his first level apartment at 56 Broadway about 10 p.m., moments after hostage negotiators coaxed two females from the barricaded unit.

Tragiou has since been charged with two counts of kidnapping, assault and battery on a police officer, and threatening to commit a crime, along with outstanding warrants, police said.

The situation began shortly after 8 p.m., when a patrol officer recognized Tragiou on the sidewalk along Broadway, and knew he had outstanding warrants, Deputy police Chief Michael Cabral said.

The officer approached the man, who resisted and then fled into the apartment - which is his residence - and barricaded himself inside, Cabral said.

Tragiou refused to leave. And two women, who were also residents in the apartment, were barricaded inside with him, Cabral said.

He also threatened to have a gun, Cabral said.

"The suspect made threats to the level we felt it was necessary to call in a SWAT team," Cabral said.

The building was evacuated and Broadway was blocked off to traffic for about two hours. A large crowd gathered in the street as a hostage negotiator, speaking on a megaphone, convinced the two women inside to leave the apartment. But Tragiou refused, and barricade both entrances to the apartment, Cabral said.

The SWAT team threw a smoke bomb in the unti and battered down the door, bringing the suspect out of the unit.

Tragiou had self-inflicted wounds that were not life threatening, Cabral said. Blood could be seen on the walls inside the unit through a street-level window. No weapons were found inside, Cabral said.

On Monday night, it was not clear whether the women in the unit were hostages. They were taken to Somerville Police Headquarters to be interviewed.

"They never felt their lives were in jeopardy," Cabral said Monday. "He let them leave."

But police booking report, provided by Somerville Police Tuesday, shows Tragiou will face two kidnapping charges from the incident. And neither woman faces any charges.

Neighbors: Drugs and Arguing Were Common in Apartment

One neighbor, who asked not to be named, said he heard arguing coming from the unit below his constantly, where a mother and adult son lived.

"I'm not surprised," he said. "I knew it was gonna end. I didn't know it was going to end like this."

Another neighbor said police knocked on her door just after 8 p.m.

"They said, 'It's a life-threatening situation, you gotta get out,'" she said.

The male suspect was the only person injured in the incident. Broadway was reopened to traffic about 10:30 p.m.