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Gene Kennedy reportingPolice ended a four hour standoff with an armed suspect at a Salt Lake City home this morning. Officers brought the man out of the house in handcuffs.
It all started when the police received a call about a gun shot early Tuesday morning. When police arrived at 400 South Emery Street, the suspected shooter fled into the house.
Around 2:30 this morning, there were several people inside the home, including the man who fired the gun. Half a dozen people came out of the house and cooperated with police, but three others refused to come. For police and neighbors, it became a tense waiting game.
Police: "We are not going away. Come to the door now."
It was the message repeated over and over again. For neighbors and their children it was an unexpected wake-up call.
Shaun Stincelli, Neighbor: "They just wanted to go back to sleep but it's kind of hard with someone screaming in a bullhorn."
But it was a scene that did not surprise Shaun Stincelli.
Shaun Stincelli, Neighbor: "Just the cops have been over there a couple times."
Over what we're not sure, but this morning, police patrolling the neighborhood heard a gunshot near a house on Emery Street. It was around 2:30 a.m. Not long after, police saw a a car taking off. The vehicle turned out to be stolen.
Greg Glenn, Stolen Car Victim: "It was around 3:30 this morning, police called us and said they recovered our stolen car which was taken over a week ago."
Greg and Teresa Glenn got their car back. The people who took it led police to the house on Emery Street. Police had a feeling the man with the gun was inside, but there were others too.
Det. Joe Cyr, Salt Lake City Police Dept.: "We had some information that led us to believe there were hostages. They were just hunkered down and didn't want to come out to police."
SWAT used tear gas to end the standoff. One by one police pulled the men out in handcuffs. Three of them were taken into custody.
Police say the man who fired the gun is Alfredo Castro-Samora. He's been booked into jail. So has Neo Trujillo. Police say he was the one with the stolen car.
Police say when a man in another house saw the S-W-A-T team, he thought authorities were after him. So, that man armed and barricaded himself inside his home. Police arrested him too.
