Man in custody after North Las Vegas barricade
The man who barricaded himself in a small outbuilding in his family’s North Las Vegas backyard was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The 53-year-old man grabbed a knife and locked himself in the outbuilding after he hit his stepfather with a broken table leg just before 11 a.m., police spokesman Eric Leavitt said. The hit came after an argument between the two, but police are unsure why the man barricaded himself.
Leavitt said the crisis negotiators “did a great job ending this peacefully,” and are bringing the suspect to jail on one charge of misdemeanor domestic battery and one charge of battery with a deadly weapon.
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