Barricaded suspect who prompted shelter-in-place at Barnstable schools taken into custody

A suspect who allegedly held a person at knifepoint and was barricaded inside a home for hours, prompting lockdowns at local schools and evacuations of nearby homes, was taken into custody in Barnstable Wednesday afternoon, officials said. 

Police told Boston 25 that the suspect was arrested at about 4:30 p.m. The Barnstable Police Department did not immediately respond to request for comment by Boston.com. 

Police initially responded to a home on St. Francis Circle in Hyannis at about 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday for reports of a person holding another person at knifepoint, the Barnstable Police Department said in a statement around noon Wednesday. The caller later told dispatch that occupants of the house were able to escape, however, the suspect was still inside the home. 

A shelter in place was sent out for a one-mile radius from the incident location, and homes in the “immediate vicinity” were evacuated by police, according to the statement. Barnstable High School, Barnstable Intermediate School, Hyannis West Elementary School, Enoch Cobb Early Learning Center, and the Barnstable Community Innovation School were sheltering in place as a precaution, an official told Boston 25. 

Barnstable police were able to contain the suspect in his home when they arrived on scene, and the Cape Cod Regional SWAT team took over command of the incident. 

At approximately 10:30 a.m., police identified local schools that there was “no danger to any students attending nearby schools due to the fact that the suspect was confined to his home.”

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