1 taken to hospital after SWAT standoff at Oxford apartments

Three people were shot and one of those people has died in a shooting Tuesday night in the 700 block of Second Street in Hamilton. | NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

Credit: Nick Graham

Credit: Nick Graham

Three people were shot and one of those people has died in a shooting Tuesday night in the 700 block of Second Street in Hamilton. | NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

A man was taken in custody Tuesday night following a SWAT standoff in Oxford at an apartment complex near Locust and High streets.

Butler County dispatchers said that police were initially called to the apartment at 5:25 p.m. A caller told police that they were having a problem with a ex of theirs who was in the apartment. Once on scene, the ex shut and locked the door on police.

The situation continued to escalate, with dispatchers reporting that SWAT was called to the scene at 6:41 p.m.

While there, emergency crews spoke into a megaphone telling the person in the apartment to come out, and first responders told the Oxford Free Press that they had “rifles drawn”

By around 8:30 p.m., the Oxford Free Press said that a large crowd had gathered at the scene, but at about 8:47 p.m. a loud bang sent a crowd of students running, with three more bangs followed at 9:14 p.m.

It is unclear what caused the noises, but Butler County dispatchers said that SWAT breached the door of the apartment, and then later breached the door of an interior bedroom before sending in a K9 unit.

About ten minutes after the loud bangs, eyewitnesses said that they saw a man taken out of the complex, handcuffed and put on a stretcher, the Oxford Free Press said.

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