Crime & Safety
Standoff: Five Things You Need to Know Today
If you're displaced by the police standoff in the City of Falls Church, here's some things you need to know.
1 - Update - 2:05 p.m. - Police are no longer allowing residents of Hillwood Avenue between Cherry and Roosevelt streets into the area at all. Residents are advised to make back-up accomodation plans for tonight in case the situation is not resolved by nightfall.
Earlier today, evacuated residents who needed to get back into their homes for medicines or a change of clothes were able to call City of Falls Church police dispatch at 703-241-5053 to make arrangements. That is no longer the case.
2 - Hillwood Avenue is closed from Cherry Street to S. Roosevelt Street due to the standoff (see map at right).
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3 – Police are continuing to negotiate with the man barricaded inside his home in the 600 block of Hillwood Ave. Negotiations started around 1 a.m. Police have been on the scene since 4:30 p.m. Monday.
4 – Residents in the area surrounding Hillwood Avenue are allowed to get to and from their homes without interruption. They are just forbidden from using Hillwood Avenue itself.
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5 – No one has been hurt in the standoff.
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