SWAT standoff ends peacefully, 1 person in custody

Officers respond to SWAT situation in Atlanta.

ATLANTA — A SWAT standoff in southwest Atlanta is over hours after people were urged to stay in their homes.

Officers were called to barricaded gunman in the 300 block of St. John’s Avenue in Atlanta around 9 a.m.

The caller said a family member was having a mental health crisis and that he was threatening to harm his family and himself.