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(Updated) Meadow Lane Hostage Situation Ends Without Violence
Neighborhood residents were asked to stay inside their homes as an apparently intoxicated man threatened to kill his parents and barricaded himself in his home with a weapon, police said.
A man apparently under the influence of drugs or alcohol threatened to kill his parents and barricaded himself in his Meadow Lane home early Sunday morning before surrendering to police just before 9:30 a.m., according to Southington Police.
responded to a domestic violence call from a resident of 14 Meadow Lane at about 5 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Southington Police Lt. Lowell DePalma.
Ray Tufts IV, 32, who lives in the home, threatened to kill his parents, who also reside there, according to DePalma. The parents were safely removed from the home, but the individual remained barricaded inside until about 9:10 a.m., when he surrendered to police, DePalma said.
Tufts was treated at the Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain Campus, and released into police custody. He is facing charges of breach of peace, interfering with an officer and second-degree threatening.
He was held in lieu of a $250,000 bond and is due in Bristol Superior Court this morning.
The SPD mobile unit, , ambulances, CL&P and the Community Emergency Response Team/SWAT team all responded.
Neighborhood residents were warned to stay inside their homes because a firearm was known to be in the home. A few homes on Meadow Lane were evacuated, DePalma said.
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The 911 caller described Tufts as being out of control and violent. He was highly intoxicated, with drugs possibly involved, DePalma said, and was transported to an area hospital for evaluation.
Southington police are continuing the investigation.
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Correction: This update originally identified Lowell DePalma as a police sergeant. He is, of course, !
Original Story
Police are responding to an apparent hostage situation on Lawncrest Drive.
Residents in that neighborhood woke up this morning to an emergency call from the Southington Police Department at about 6:50 a.m. informing them that police were responding to an emergency situation in the area. The call asked residents to stay inside their homes until they receive another call that the situation has been resolved.
According to a man who lives in the neighborhood but asked not to be identified, a man has barricaded himself inside a home, possibly with his stepfather. Police cars, ambulances, fire trucks, a police mobile command unit and officers in fatigues filled the street near Lawncrest's intersections with Quaker Lane and Meadow Lane.
Check back for more information as it becomes available.
