The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office’s SWAT team was deployed Tuesday afternoon to the Lofts at Brownwood after a subject barricaded himself in at the apartment complex in The Villages.
The incident began at about 2:45 p.m.
There was a heavy law enforcement presence in and around the apartment complex near the Brownwood town center. The apartments were evacuated during the standoff that lasted more than two hours.
The incident took place within the jurisdiction of the Wildwood Police Department. A 65-year-old man was taken into custody around 4 p.m. He had claimed to be armed, but did not have any firearms when he eventually surrendered to police.
