Metro investigating possible kidnapping in northeast Las Vegas Valley

A woman who said she’d been held against her will in a northeast valley apartment overnight Thursday escaped and ran to a nearby convenience store for help Friday afternoon, prompting a SWAT standoff for several hours at the apartment, police said.

The standoff ended peacefully at about 5 p.m. when two men were taken into custody,

Events began earlier Friday afternoon when the woman ran to the Circle K on the 3900 block of East Lake Mead about 1 p.m., police said. There, at the Walnut Road intersection, officers found her with nonlife-threatening injures, Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Jesse Roybal said.

Police soon zeroed in on the apartment she ran from — about a block south of Lake Mead, on the west side of Walnut — and set up a barricade. Before the standoff resolution, Roybal said police believed at least one person was inside the apartment, possibly two.

It was not clear if the woman knew the person or people she said kidnapped her. It was also unclear how she was injured or how she escaped.

During the standoff, Metro did not know if the person or people inside the apartment were armed. Out of precaution, police evacuated neighbors in the immediate area and shut down traffic on Walnut between Lake Mead and Tonopah Avenue.

For hours, police cars, SUVs and trucks lined that section of road as part of the barricade. Cars on Lake Mead slowed to peek south at the scene as they passed through the intersection, and people at the Circle K and neighboring Rainbow Market peered down the street and took cellphone photos.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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