LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville man was arrested after an hours-long standoff with Metro Police near a Pleasure Ridge Park middle school on Thursday afternoon.
Louisville Metro Police said there was “significant police activity” in the 6100 block of Julie Kay Way, between Terry Road and Jeffery Drive.
That’s right next to Conway Middle School.
According to LMPD’s Twitter, at the request of police, students at the school were asked to stay inside the building and resume normal school activities.
LMPD Major Corey Robinson said officers with the department's Third Division were dispatched on a report of a shooting in the area, however when police arrived they learned no one had been shot.
Witnesses told police he had pulled out a knife and threatened neighbors before barricading himself inside his apartment. Police say the rest of the apartment complex was ordered to shelter in place.
Robinson said there was reason to believe the man was armed with a knife.
According to Robinson, police had met the suspect on Wednesday because of a similar situation, which ended with the man refusing to leave.
"We didn't have any criminal charges to pursue at that time," he said. "Now today, it's escalated to criminal charges and so we're going to stay here and make sure the area is safe."
The department's SWAT team was brought in to deescalate the situation, police said. The man, whose identity is unknown, was taken into custody hours later.
He has been charged with two counts of menacing and two counts of terroristic threatening. The man was transported to the University of Louisville Hospital under a signed, mental inquest warrant.
We will update as more information becomes available.
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