A standoff between police and a man holding a 2-year-old boy hostage stretched into its 16th hour Wednesday afternoon in Buford.
The standoff, on Beyers Landing Drive in Buford, was touched off Tuesday night when police believe a domestic argument went bad.
Gwinnett County Police said Wednesday morning that the son of a woman who lives at the Beyers Landing address called 911 at about 10 p.m., saying his mother’s boyfriend was holding the family at gunpoint.
The suspect was threatening to kill everyone, then commit suicide, police say.
When SWAT teams arrived around 10:30 p.m., the gunman let the woman and several others leave the residence, but kept the 2-year-old boy with him.