{"id":791876,"date":"2026-07-29T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791876\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:13:08","slug":"update-law-enforcement-sets-off-flash-bang-at-downtown-apartment-complex-during-standoff-grand-forks-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791876\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Law enforcement sets off flash bang at downtown apartment complex during standoff &#8211; Grand Forks Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS \u2014 Police are engaged in an active situation with a barricaded subject at 515 First Ave. S. near the Grand Forks Police Department. Police are asking the public to stay away from the area. <\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday to multiple reports of a suicidal man in an apartment complex, according to GFPD Lt. Travis Benson. The man allegedly claimed he has a weapon and that he will shoot anyone who approached him, Benson said. <\/p>\n<p>Just after 1:10 p.m., around 25 officers \u2014 including SWAT and Crisis Negotiations teams \u2014 were on the scene, according to Benson. Police drones were also deployed. <\/p>\n<p>Police set off a flash bang at the apartment complex at 1:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. <\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"3142.jpeg\"  width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/526eeac\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1600x1200+0+0\/resize\/840x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F19%2Fb6%2F97a25dfd4c389918af93c36b7155%2F3142.jpeg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSI2MzBweCIgd2lkdGg9Ijg0MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Grand Forks Police Officers and an armed police vehicle can be seen advancing toward a reported barricaded subject around 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2026, near 515 First Ave. S. in Grand Forks.<\/p>\n<p>Maia Labbe \/ Grand Forks Herald<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"3144.jpeg\"  width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.forumcomm.com\/dims4\/default\/f6ba765\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1600x1200+0+0\/resize\/840x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum-communications-production-web.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F4a%2F2e%2Ff12630d54335af9a6163a3909b82%2F3144.jpeg\" data-lazy-load=\"true\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSI2MzBweCIgd2lkdGg9Ijg0MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Law enforcement deployed a flash bang at 1:50 p.m. at the site of a reported armed, suicidal man, on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 515 First Ave. S. in Grand Forks. <\/p>\n<p>Maia Labbe \/ Grand Forks<\/p>\n<p>\n                Our newsroom occasionally reports stories under a byline of &#8220;staff.&#8221; Often, the &#8220;staff&#8221; byline is used when rewriting basic news briefs that originate from official sources, such as a city press release about a road closure, and which require little or no reporting. At times, this byline is used when a news story includes numerous authors or when the story is formed by aggregating previously reported news from various sources. If outside sources are used, it is noted within the story.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND FORKS \u2014 Police are engaged in an active situation with a barricaded subject at 515 First Ave.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,336578,451,3,1583,452,453],"class_list":["post-791876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-grand-forks-police","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-police","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791876","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=791876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}