Dallas

Argument Over Parked Car Leads to Threat, SWAT Standoff

Police said a standoff is over after taking two people into custody who were aremed and barricaded inside a home in Dallas Thursday morning. [[380957731,C]]

A Dallas SWAT team responded to assist police at the home in the 2600 block of Peabody Avenue, just west of Fair Park, at about 7:30 a.m.

The incident began with an argument over a parked car, according to Dallas Police Corporal Tramese Andrews. A woman approached her neigbor to ask him to move the car that was blocking her driveway.

That request turned into an argument, police said, which resulted in the man retrieving a rifle from his apartment and threatening his neighbor.

Dallas police tweeted that they took two people into custody just after 10 a.m.

The man has been charged with aggravated assault for threatening his neighbor with the rifle, according to Cpl. Andrews.

The woman was in the apartment with the man and has not been charged with a crime, according to police.

No one was hurt during the incident.

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