EAST POINT, Ga. — A woman has been taken into custody after allegedly barricading herself in a home in an East Point neighborhood Tuesday, authorities said.
It happened in the 1700 block of Center Avenue. Police said the woman got into a dispute with Fulton County Animal Control, allegedly threatening an animal control investigator with a knife before going back into the home and barricading herself.
The situation lasted more than four hours and prompted response from South Metro SWAT, East Point Police said.
11Alive crews saw police walking the woman out of the house in handcuffs. She struggled with police as they were putting her in a patrol car. Posters were also seen in the windows of her home, warning everyone she had booby-trapped all the entrances and to stay away.
Police later said they believe the woman was experiencing a mental crisis. She was taken for treatment and charges are pending.
Neighbors watched it all unfold, worried for police and for the woman inside the home.
“I think they were as patient as long as they could be, and I think every intent they had was not to harm her in any way, and to help her get help,” neighbor Barry Odom said, who lives a few houses down.
Odom said he had been trying to be a friend to the woman, helping her through her good days and her bad days.
“I think there is a little bit of fear that somebody’s out to get her, and then that will go away,” Odom said.
SWAT eventually broke into her home and took her into custody.
Odom said he was relieved no one was hurt and is heartbroken for all that she has been going through.
“It felt like today that there wasn’t anybody that she knew or trusted or recognized. And that’s a sad, sad place,” he said.
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