A man police explained is armed with a shotgun barricaded himself inside a Melbourne residence at noon Friday.
Deputies from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and officers from the Melbourne Law enforcement Department surrounded the home on Caribbean Travel and are trying to negotiate with the man through a megaphone.
Brevard’s Distinctive Weapons And Tactics workforce associates arrived at 3:40 and were trying to tranquil him and talk with him. As of 6 p.m., they have been nevertheless trying to convey the person out of the residence peacefully.
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Hearth and rescue crews were on standby, police officials said.
There are no other people within the home, law enforcement claimed.
Regulation enforcement officials to begin with went to the dwelling to provide a civil warrant, law enforcement stated. Facts about the warrant was not available Friday.
Kristen Shores, a neighbor various homes down from the gentleman, has lived in the community about two many years and claimed watching this unfold was upsetting.
“I sense poor for him, to be truthful,” Shores mentioned. “It isn’t going to scare me about the neighborhood or anything. I just … you know … it’s unhappy.”
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