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Suspect Taken Into Custody After Brief Standoff With Police In West Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A West Philadelphia man is in police custody after he barricaded himself and two hostages inside of a Melon Street home.

Neighbors tell Eyewitness News the man is 38-year-old Robert Thompson.

Police responded to the home of the 4700 block of Melon Street around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Neighbors say the hostages were his mother and grandmother.

No one was injured.

 

 

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