An overnight standoff in Saskatoon ended Friday morning with seven arrests and 21 people removed from a Westmount neighbourhood home, police say.
Police were called at about 11:20 p.m. Thursday to the home on the 500 block of Avenue M North. Responding officers, according to police, saw someone in the house holding what they believed to be a handgun, which prompted the six-hour standoff.
The officers attempted to intervene but the home’s occupants barricaded themselves inside the house, prompting police to surround the residence.
Tactical police, crisis negotiators and officers with the guns and gangs unit, as well as the service’s armoured rescue vehicle, all responded.
Fourteen people and a three-year-old child exited the home after speaking with crisis negotiators, and six other people were taken into custody after police entered house.
A total of 21 people were removed. Seven were arrested on new charges or outstanding warrants, police said in a media release.
No one was injured. The standoff ended just after 5 a.m.
Police said the initial gun believed to be a handgun was an airsoft pellet gun.
