JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville's Sheriff's Office SWAT team was called to a Mandarin apartment complex twice in 24 hours and the second of two hourslong standoffs ended with a man being taken into custody.
Police said a woman called Wednesday asking for officers to check on her son because she believed he was despondent and might harm himself.
The SWAT team was at the View of Mandarin Apartments on Losco Road, just east of Old St. Augustine Road, for hours and the intersection was closed during the standoff.
Just before 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, JSO could be heard on a loudspeaker, asking the man to come out.
Officers spent hours trying to talk the man out of the apartment, according to Officer Christian Hancock.
Hancock said the man eventually came out on his balcony and said he was going through problems but was fine and did not want help from police. The man had not committed a crime, so officers couldn't breach the door and take him into custody. They left around 7 p.m.
That same man later called police around 11 p.m. to say he was going to harm himself, and SWAT officers returned to the complex. The intersection was blocked off again overnight and reopened around 6 a.m. Thursday.
The man surrendered after the second standoff and was taken to a hospital for mental evaluation, under the Baker Act.
He has not been charged with a crime.