DULUTH, MN (KDAL) – Just before 6 p-m Sunday, Duluth Police responded to an apartment building in the 700 block of East 1st Street on a report of shots fired.
The Tactical Response and Negotiation teams were sent to the scene and surrounding residents were evacuated as a precaution.
Police, using less than lethal tactics breached the apartment around 10:30 and continued negotiating with the suspect.
Police report that a 36 year old Duluth resident was arrested at 12:15 a-m without further incident.
People that were evacuated from the apartment complex were then allowed back in.
The investigation into the incident is ongoing and more information is expected later in the day.
UPDATE: Police on Monday indicate that the suspect, in what was described as a domestic incident, was determined not to be in the apartment building. He had left the scene before police arrived.
While negotiating by phone, the suspect agreed to meet officers in the 1200 block of West Michigan Street where the arrest was made.
Pending charges include 2nd degree assault, discharge of a firearm endangering safety and domestic assault, fear of bodily harm.
