Photos: SWAT team comes up empty after 5-hour standoff

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Photos: SWAT team comes up empty after 5-hour standoff

SWAT team comes up empty after 5-hour standoff

The incident began around 1:30 a.m. with reports of a man pulling a gun on a woman at a home in the 2400 block of Baxter Street. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police surrounded a home in southwest Atlanta for several hours early today, but when SWAT officers went into the house, the person whey were looking for was not there. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said the SWAT team was called in because of a “possible barricaded gunman.” But just after 7 a.m., Jones said SWAT officer had left the scene, and, “the perpetrator was not located.” JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

The incident began around 1:30 a.m. with reports of a man pulling a gun on a woman at a home in the 2400 block of Baxter Street. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police surrounded a home in southwest Atlanta for several hours early today, but when SWAT officers went into the house, the person whey were looking for was not there. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said the SWAT team was called in because of a “possible barricaded gunman.” But just after 7 a.m., Jones said SWAT officer had left the scene, and, “the perpetrator was not located.” JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

The incident began around 1:30 a.m. with reports of a man pulling a gun on a woman at a home in the 2400 block of Baxter Street. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police surrounded a home in southwest Atlanta for several hours early today, but when SWAT officers went into the house, the person whey were looking for was not there. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said the SWAT team was called in because of a “possible barricaded gunman.” But just after 7 a.m., Jones said SWAT officer had left the scene, and, “the perpetrator was not located.” JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

The incident began around 1:30 a.m. with reports of a man pulling a gun on a woman at a home in the 2400 block of Baxter Street. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police surrounded a home in southwest Atlanta for several hours early today, but when SWAT officers went into the house, the person whey were looking for was not there. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said the SWAT team was called in because of a “possible barricaded gunman.” But just after 7 a.m., Jones said SWAT officer had left the scene, and, “the perpetrator was not located.” JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

The incident began around 1:30 a.m. with reports of a man pulling a gun on a woman at a home in the 2400 block of Baxter Street. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

Atlanta police surrounded a home in southwest Atlanta for several hours early today, but when SWAT officers went into the house, the person whey were looking for was not there. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

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The incident began around 1:30 a.m. with reports of a man pulling a gun on a woman at a home in the 2400 block of Baxter Street. JOHN SPINK/JOHNSPINK@AJC.COM

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