Police in standoff with armed man in Maple Grove

January 19, 2013 at 4:26AM
Swat team officers arrived to the scene of a man held up alone in a townhouse with a shotgun on Friday, January 18, 2013, in Maple Grove, Minn.
SWAT team officers arrived to the scene of a man holed up alone in a townhouse with a shotgun on Friday in Maple Grove. (Dml - Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Police and SWAT team members have tried to negotiate with an armed man holed up in a Maple Grove townhouse for the last eight hours.

Police were first called to the 7600 block of Wedgewood Court in Maple Grove a little after 2 p.m. Friday.

Police were responding to a welfare check, but when they got there they spotted a man with a shotgun so they retreated, said Capt. Tracy Stille of the Maple Grove Police.

As of 10 p.m., police were still at the scene.

STAFF REPORTS

Swat team officers arrived to the scene of a man held up alone in a townhouse with a shotgun on Friday, January 18, 2013, in Maple Grove, Minn.
SWAT team officers arrived to the scene of a man holed up alone in a townhouse with a shotgun Friday in Maple Grove. (Dml - Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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