Minnesota hotel standoff ongoing with man wanted in Arizona
Source: Associated Press
Updated 6:32 am, Tuesday, January 30, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police entered their second day of negotiations on Tuesday with a man holed up in a hotel room on the University of Minnesota's campus after officers tried to arrest the man on a warrant out of Arizona.
University Police Chief Matt Clark said the standoff at the Graduate Minneapolis Hotel began early Monday. He has declined to say whether the suspect was armed. A woman who had been with the man in the sixth-floor room was released hours later, though police weren't calling it a hostage situation.
"The individual is still in his room and we're just kind of continuing to try to communicate, and waiting him out. Most of the rest of the operations on campus will be fairly normal," university spokesman Chuck Tombarge said early Tuesday.
The university said there was no direct threat to students walking to spring semester classes. But in a text and online alert early Monday, the university urged individuals to stay away from the area.
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