A suspect was taken into custody after barricading himself in a home for more than 12 hours following the shooting of three Washington, D.C., police officers Wednesday morning.
Julius James, 46, of Southeast, D.C., was arrested and charged with cruelty to animals, the Metropolitan Police Department said. Additional charges for shots fired at police are still pending, according to the MPD.
His arrest came after members of the department’s Emergency Response Team successfully negotiated terms of surrender, according to a press release from the department.
Three police officers were shot and injured Wednesday morning while attempting to execute the arrest warrant for the animal cruelty charge.
The suspect remained barricaded in a home on the 5000 block of Hanna Place SE near Benning Road and continued shooting “sporadically” throughout the more than 12-hour standoff, police said Wednesday evening.
There was no indication that anyone else was at the residence, police spokesperson Tom Lynch said.
“This remains an active situation, and the individual has continued to fire from that location,” Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith said at an earlier news briefing.
The MPD said the suspect surrendered after “several hours” of negotiations over the phone with the Emergency Response Team.
Smith said at an earlier briefing that there were ongoing negotiations with the shooter, noting, “Sometimes he’s up, sometimes he’s down.”
The three officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to hospitals, police said.
All three officers will survive, Washington police union chairman Greggory Pemberton told NBC News as he was leaving Washington Hospital Center, having just visited the wounded officers.
One officer was shot two times in the chest, Pemberton said, but his vest stopped both rounds.
The two other officers have serious but not life-threatening gunshot wounds to their legs, Pemberton said.
There is going to be “some serious recovery time, but thankfully, they’re going to be OK,” he said.
Pemberton added that a fourth officer was injured, most likely in a fall, and was not seriously hurt.
All four officers are now in stable condition and are expected to recover, the MPD said Wednesday night.
Several blocks were shut down earlier in the day, and multiple schools in the area were placed on lockdown during the standoff.
Minyvonne Burke
Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.
Rebecca Cohen
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