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SWAT and a Hostage Negotiation Team arrested a suspect following a multiple-hour standoff in the 12500 block of Lake City Way NE in Lake City.

Patrol Officers, SWAT, and HNT are attempting to take a suspect into custody in the 12500 block of Lake City Way Northeast. Please be safe and avoid the area.

— Seattle Police Department (@SeattlePD)

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) said this situation couldn’t have ended any better, as the standoff ended peacefully despite lasting for more than five hours. The standoff ended without incident just before 12 p.m.

SWAT’s involvement came after a 51-year-old man fired at a car just after 6 a.m. Thursday. The suspect barricaded himself in an apartment on 125th Street and Lake City Way. SPD confirmed no one was injured in the shooting.

Hostage negotiators were in constant contact with the suspect who they knew to be a convicted murder. They also knew there were three girls inside the apartment with the man.

“We’ve had our negotiation team on scene for a while,” SPD Detective Eric Munoz said. “The only thing I have confirmed and verified is that he is in custody and no force was used by our officers or our SWAT team.”

There is probable cause for the man’s arrest for investigation of unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful discharge of a firearm, and for a pending felony warrant.

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