Shots fired in barricade situation in Silver Spring area
The incident unfolded around 2:25 a.m. Tuesday in the 14000 block of Castle Boulevard near U.S. Route 29 and Edgewood Park. Police said they got calls from several residents in the area about shots fired, according to Shiera Goff, a Montgomery County Police spokeswoman. She said it appeared he may have been shooting from a balcony.
When officers arrived, she said, they saw a man with a gun. Police called for backup and secured the area, and negotiators talked with him for several hours. At a news conference Tuesday morning when the situation was still unfolding, Goff said the man was armed and inside an apartment with other people. The relationship between the man and the others was not known.
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