UPDATE: A man is now in custody following a lengthy barricade situation in which shots were fired and homes were evacuated in Philadelphia's Fox Chase neighborhood, police said. New details HERE:
The ordeal began Thursday at 3:35 p.m. when a relative of an unidentified 40-year-old man walked into a police district with 302 paperwork, indicating his family member was in need of an evaluation for possible psychiatric treatment.
Police responded to the 40-year-old man’s home along the 700 block of Emerson Street at 3:51 p.m. Investigators said the man began to speak to the responding officers from a window and asked to see the paperwork. When the officers showed it to him, he told them he needed to take a shower, police said. The man then allegedly began to open a safe with multiple guns inside. Get Philly local news, weather forecasts, sports and entertainment stories to your inbox.
Police closed Verree Road to Solly Avenue as well as Halstead Street to Hoffnagle Street due to the standoff. Shortly before 11 p.m., officials announced that the man surrendered to police and was taken into custody.
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