BOSTON (WHDH) – Three police officers were wounded and a man who opened fire on them is dead after an hourslong standoff in Boston on Tuesday ended in a shooting, authorities said.
Officers responding to a report of an armed individual barricaded in a triple-decker home on Ferndale Street in Dorchester around 9:30 a.m. immediately set up a perimeter and called in SWAT teams, as well as crisis negotiators, according to the Boston Police Department.
Negotiators spent about six hours trying to talk the individual into a peaceful surrender before the police say the suspect began firing at the officers.
The officers returned fire and the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
The names of those involved in the shooting have not been released.
A number of Boston police officers were seen outside the hospital as they awaited word on their injured colleagues. One of them was released shortly before 10 p.m.
“This highlights the dangers that the men and women of this department face every single day that they put on this uniform,” said acting Police Commissioner Gregory Long
Video from the scene of the standoff showed several ambulances, armored vehicles, and sharpshooters in the neighborhood.
Juli Clarke said her stepson was the man who was shot and killed by police and that the whole incident started when he pulled a gun on her and her adult son.
“I don’t know what was going through his head,” said Clarke. “I can’t say, but I told him at 7:00 this morning that this was not going to end well.”
No additional information was immediately available.
Detectives assigned to the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office are assisting Boston police with an investigation.
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