{"id":686476,"date":"2026-06-05T18:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686476\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:32:20","slug":"police-in-standoff-with-armed-suspect-in-ne-portland-hostage-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/686476\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in standoff with armed suspect in NE Portland; hostage released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; Tactical teams responded to a reported hostage standoff in the Hazelwood neighborhood Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just after 5:30 a.m., officers responded to a report of a disturbance with a weapon in the 1200 block of Northeast 122nd Avenue. Police said the initial reports were that an armed suspect was inside an apartment with a woman and was not allowing her to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) and the Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT) responded to the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At about 8 a.m., police said the woman was able to get out of the apartment and is safe with officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said munitions have been deployed as tactical teams try to communicate with the suspect, who remains barricaded inside the apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No injuries have been reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Northeast 122nd Avenue is closed from Northeast Halsey Street to Northeast Holladay Street. Residents in the area have been asked to shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">FOX 12 spoke with a neighbor who was surprised by the size of the police response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s just an unusual response and I figured it was a hostage situation or something, and sure enough that\u2019s what\u2019s going on,\u201d he said. \u201cHope everybody\u2019s ok, hope it\u2019s not a tragic situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is developing news. FOX 12 Oregon will update this story when new details are released.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; Tactical teams responded to a reported hostage standoff in the Hazelwood neighborhood Friday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-686476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}