Crime & Safety
1 Arrested, Standoff Ends After Nearly 4 Hours In Milwaukee: Police
Police were met with gunfire when responding to a shots fired call, but arrested a man without injury after an hours-long standoff.
MILWAUKEE, WI — A man was arrested after an hours-long standoff in Milwaukee's Franklin Heights neighborhood on Wednesday morning, the Milwaukee Police Department said.
Police responded to a ShotSpotter call when a man fired shots at them from a house on the 3700 block of N. 27th Street around 3:05 a.m., police said in a statement. A "tactical situation" started and the man continued to fire through walls, until he was arrested at 6:50 a.m.
A squad car and several houses were hit by the man's gunfire, but police didn't return fire and no one was injured, police said.
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Police used two armored vehicles and shut down the neighborhood in a radius of two blocks during the standoff, camera from a WISN-12 helicopter showed.
More than a dozen officers taped off N. 27th Street and W. Vienna Avenue in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Fox 6 Milwaukee reported. Paramedics appeared among the crowd of officers.
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The man will be charged by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, police said.
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