Police Use Tear Gas At 220 14th St. NE

Sharon Cochran, 1300 block of Emerald Street NE, reported that around 6:30 or 7 p.m. on Friday, she learned the following from her police scanner: There was an incident taking place at 220 14th St. NE. A female police officer asked, on the radio, if the person who had called the incident in had left a callback number. The dispatcher said the lady was calling, but the police couldn't understand anything she was saying. Another officer came on the radio and said, "He's in the basement." The police decided to clear the block. The police took two women to the Fifth District station. The police said they had to call ERT to set up barricades, and they were planning to set up a command center at 19th and C. Ms. Cochran also said a helicopter was flying over the area for many, many hours, on Friday evening.

Another neighbor, on 14th Street, said yesterday that he heard from police that a man was holding his wife hostage.

Early yesterday afternoon, at Tennessee Avenue and C Street NE, there were five police cars, two police vans, two fire trucks and one fire battalion chief's car. There were at least nine more police cars on C, between Tennessee and 14th Street NE. Many of the streets in the area were blocked off.

Will Scheltema, of the 100 block of 15th St. NE, reported that yesterday evening, the police "lobbed some tear gas in. They backed everybody off two blocks before they did it, and then swooped the guy away." §