Police: 2 men shot in standoff with Cleveland SWAT team
Police say Cleveland SWAT officers shot two men during a gunfight after a six-hour standoff, and both are in surgery.
CLEVELAND (AP) - Police say Cleveland SWAT officers shot two men during a gunfight after a six-hour standoff, and both are in surgery.
Police Chief Calvin Williams said Tuesday at the scene near downtown that negotiators spent hours trying to persuade the two men inside a car to surrender.
A police spokeswoman says one of the men fired shots from inside the car, resulting in a graze wound to an officer's leg. SWAT officers then returned fire.
The standoff began around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday when two officers on foot patrol approached a car with four people inside and spotted a gun in the back seat. The spokeswoman says a man and a woman sitting in the back seat got out of the vehicle without the gun and were arrested.
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