HOUSTON COUNTY: At this time not releasing details, Houston County Sheriff Deputies involved in a standoff with a barricaded subject.
More details to follow.
UPDATED @ 8:27 PM.
Houston County Sheriff Deputies have been in a stand off since sometime after 5 PM on Sandbed Road in Wicksburg. A white male subject is reported to have been drinking a lot today. Reports are the subject pulled a gun on a neighbor and had his wife and child inside the home.
Houston County Sheriff Deputies arrived and observed the subject. After watching they called Sheriff Donald Valenza and the SRT Unit. The Sheriff and SRT responded and attempted to get the subject to respond and he did not.
At 8:11 PM SRT entered the residence. The subject had passed out on the couch and SRT members were able to take the subject into custody without injury.
When he passed out his wife and child were able to escape, safely.
Wicksburg Fire-Rescue has an ambulance staged nearby while the stand off was on going. PRAISES the ambulance was not needed.
THANK YOU to my Wicksburg News Team for scene pictures.
