A man is in custody after he barricaded himself inside a home in northwest Miami-Dade early Sunday morning, officials said.
The incident occurred around 2:19 a.m. Sunday at a home in the 17700 block of NW 54th Avenue.
Police units responded to the scene in reference to reports of gunshots in the area and a man seen carrying a gun, police said.
According to the Miami-Dade Police Department, the man refused to come out of the home.
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Neighbors told NBC 6 they were very shaken up by what they heard.
One neighbor, who did not wish to be named, said they heard about "five or six shots from what sounded like a handgun."
After several attempts to get the man to come out of the home, the MDPD Special Response Team (SRT) took the man into custody without further incident.
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Police have not yet released the identity of the man in custody, but said he is being interviewed reference his actions.
