Baltimore County Police resolve hours-long standoff with person in crisis in Nottingham

An hours-long barricade incident in Nottingham, Maryland, was resolved on Sunday evening, according to the Baltimore County Police Department.

Officers urged residents near the 8500 block of Castlemill Circle to avoid the area as they responded to a report involving a person experiencing a crisis.

Police were called to the scene around 10:30 a.m., and normal activity resumed around 6 p.m. A reduced police presence remained in the area.

Trained crisis negotiators engaged with the person, police stated. 

"I saw the three police cars where the power lines were, then all of a sudden, one put his beacons on, made a U-turn, and stopped in the middle of the street, put the safety cones out, and you couldn't proceed front or back," a neighbor said.

Neighbors shared photos of police in their yards with guns drawn. One family said they were asked to leave their house.

"The cops asked if they could use my house, and they went upstairs to look out, but the trees were in the way," another neighbor said.