CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) — The Cape Coral Police Department said a domestic incident on Southwest 20th Street led to a barricaded suspect and a SWAT response overnight.
CCPD told our WINK reporter Shelby Ray that, “This was a domestic incident that led to a suspect barricading inside a home,” and the situation has been resolved.
Footage from the overnight scene shows officers removing an undressed man from the home, SWAT team members deploying smoke, officers trying to gain access through a back window and damage to the garage door and a top-floor window.
“I got home from the gym around 9:30, and then there was probably 15 cop cars over here, and then a few ambulances,” Tommy Robertson, a nearby renter, said. “They were sounding their sirens and that probably went on for about three hours straight, and then everything kind of got quiet after 12:30.”
“Every so often you heard the shots go off, and then I saw the battering ram come in. I saw them breach the garage door, but that was right around 3 o’clock, 3 a.m.,” Anthony Piccone, a longtime neighbor, said.
“When they breached the door, I saw a couple of tactical teams go in through the garage door, and then I think it was about — I might be off on the time — I think it was about 4 a.m., and about 15 minutes later, they took them out in handcuffs, and they’re still here this morning.”
Piccone said this was not the first time something like this has happened. Cape Coral police did not release any other information about the incident. However, officers remained on scene as of 11 a.m., Saturday morning.