A spectacle of police power and a major inconvenience for local businesses, schools and tourists ended early Friday afternoon when police took a man into custody who had barricaded himself in a downtown Miami hotel room for almost four hours, according to a law enforcement source.
Police did not immediately release the man’s name or announce charges against him. No one was injured during the four-hour standoff. And though the initial calls to police were about gunfire, no weapon was recovered.
Miami police said they received a call at 9:42 a.m. of shots fired inside the Hilton Hotel in the old Omni district of downtown Miami. Little information was released about the suspect as police deployed tactical teams and hostage negotiators to the hotel at 1601 Biscayne Blvd.
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