NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Police have taken a subject who barricaded himself inside a Northwest Miami-Dade home into custody after an hours-long standoff.
Miami-Dade Police responded to the home near Northwest Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street.
7Skyforce was over the scene where police were seen setting up a perimeter.
According to police, the standoff began just after 11 a.m. when officers in the area saw who they believed was a subject in a homicide case, and the person retreated into the home.
Family members responded to the scene, and a woman believed to be the subject’s mother could be seen arguing with police and demanding to be let into the home.
Officers eventually let her into the scene, beyond crime scene tape, but not into the home.
At around 4:15 p.m., officers were able to successfully take the subject into custody.
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