BRIEF: Quakertown standoff ends peacefully
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[October 27, 2009]

BRIEF: Quakertown standoff ends peacefully

Oct 27, 2009 (The Morning Call - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A 39-year-old suicidal man who had barricaded himself into a Quakertown house surrendered peacefully this afternoon.

A chief negotiator with the Central Bucks Special Response team talked the man into coming out without incident shortly before 3 p.m. Police did not release the man's name, but said he was taken to Grandview Hospital in West Rockhill Township.



No one was injured in the incident. About a dozen people who were evacuated from the area were allowed to return to their homes and streets were re-opened to traffic.

Earlier, police had the home in the unit block of N. Hellertown Avenue surrounded where the man had barricaded himself, said David Mettin, Pennridge Regional police chief and a member of the response team.



The incident began at 9:30 a.m. after police went to the man's house to check on his welfare. The man had called his doctor and told him he was going to kill himself, Mettin said.

The chief negotiator arrived around 1:40 p.m., Mettin said.

--Reporting by Tracy Jordan, The Morning Call To see more of The Morning Call, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.mcall.com. Copyright (c) 2009, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.

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