Officials have confirmed the standoff is related to a Silver Alert out of Indiana involving three missing children believed to be with non-custodial parents.
SAN ANTONIO — Law enforcement converged on a motel in Pearsall, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon where they have been involved in an ongoing standoff with a barricaded suspect for hours.
The Frio County Sheriff's Office told CBS News the response was connected to a case centered around three young children missing out of Indiana, but wouldn't provide further specifics until a resolution was reached. The disappearances of Frankie, Queen and King Terrellin Indiana on Friday; police there believe the siblings, ranging in age from 1 to 4 years old, were taken by their noncustodial parents possibly en route to Mexico.
IMPD says two Indianapolis parents do not have legal custody of the children they took off with during a supervised visit on July 4.about 55 miles southwest of San Antonio. Local police, as well as sheriff's deputies and Texas troopers, could be seen outside the Rio Frio Motel, at West Comal and South Trevino streets. Law enforcement at the site of a standoff in Pearsall, Texas, reportedly connected to three missing Indiana siblings.
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