Boy, babysitter survive Las Vegas hostage ordeal, man arrested
A 29-hour barricade in southwest Las Vegas that involved two hostages and a man shooting at police ended without injuries Thursday afternoon.
An officer patrolling near the Highland Inn Motel, 8025 Dean Martin Drive, found a stolen vehicle and a stolen motorcycle parked outside around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to Metropolitan Police Department Deputy Chief Sasha Larkin.
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A man tried to get on the motorcycle while the officer was there, and when the officer tried to stop the man, he tried to pull a gun from inside his shirt, Larkin said at a briefing Thursday afternoon.
The officer “created space” and de-escalated the situation, which resulted in the man running into his apartment.
Investigators believe that once the man was in his apartment, he used a saw and a hammer to cut a hole and sneak into the apartment next door, where he took a 4-year-old boy and his babysitter hostage before firing a round at police.
“We took this very slowly and methodically, negotiating with him throughout the entire night,” Larkin said.
After almost three hours of negotiations, Larkin said, the man let the boy go but kept the babysitter hostage until Thursday afternoon.
The man voluntarily came out of the apartment later in the afternoon. No one was injured.
“This is what these guys train for,” Larkin said. “There is a time where they need to use force and move quickly, but they also recognize that this was one of those times we could slow down.”
. The suspect was identified in Clark County Detention Center records as Antionio BarryEdwards, 24. Larkin said he was expected to face charges of assault with a deadly weapon, resisting with a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, possessing a stolen vehicle, kidnapping and attempted murder on a police officer.
Las Vegas Justice Court records show BarryEdwards was charged with armed robbery and grand larceny on May 12 in a separate incident. Details of the events leading to those charges were not immediately available.
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Contact Sabrina Schnur at sschnur@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0278. Follow @sabrina_schnur on Twitter. Review-Jounal reporter Katelyn Newberg contributed to this report.
