A woman who authorities described as ‘distraught’ held police in Lilburn at bay for hours Saturday morning before being taken into custody without incident.
Gwinnett County Police were called to Park Cross Apartments in the 2700 block of Park Crossing Way in Lilburn around 7:30 a.m., after a woman contacted police about her distraught daughter.
Officers located the daughter, who at one point was holding a gun to her head, said Gwinnett police spokesman Corporal Troy R. Tobler. Gwinnett’s SWAT Team and crisis negotiators were called out “due to the perceived threat and the fact it was within a high density residential setting,” Tobler said. Some residents in the apartment complex were evacuated as police negotiated with a woman threatening suicide. The woman, who police did not identify, fired a round inside the residence, but the shot was not aimed at police. It may have been accidental or a warning shot, Tobler said.
Police talked with the woman for more than three hours and finally convinced her to leave the apartment around 11:15 a.m. Once the woman came outside and put down the gun, she was into custody and transported to the Gwinnett County Jail. Charges are pending, but Tobler said officials will focus on getting the woman mental health assistance.
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