FBI on Scene of Barricaded Gunman: UPDATED

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An hours-long standoff with the FBI on Detroit’s west side ended about 1 p.m. Friday when a man suspected of killing the mother of one of his children was taken into custody .

Police fired tear gas and deployed flash bang grenades as negotiators tried to convince the man, identified as Jermaine Cooper, to surrender, the Detroit Free Press reports.

He is suspected in the homicide of Melissa Moore, who was shot and killed on Nov. 6. Her shooting was described by the Grand Rapids Press as “almost execution style.”

Patch’s earlier report:

Reporters covering an ongoing FBI operation on Detroit’s west side have been asked to stop live tweeting about the situation involving a barricaded gunman or be pushed back from the area in the 9100 block of Dawes, west of Livernois between Interstate 96 and Tireman.

Holly Fournier, a reporter for The Detroit News, tweeted about 8:45 a.m. that authorities told reporters to stop sharing information on social media.

Fournier was about a block away from the situation, and tweeted earlier that she could see several police vehicles and a tan armored vehicle on the lawn. Tactical officers had guns pointed toward the home.

At one point, tear gas was fired into the home.

The situation apparently unfolded when police officers from western Michigan were serving a search warrant.

“We have a barricaded gunman,” Sgt. Greg Griffin of the Grand Rapids Police Department told The Detroit News. “They were executing a search warrant, and he’s barricaded himself in there.”