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SWAT team arrests man after standoff at Atlanta hotel

By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
Published  October 22, 2022 2:30pm EDT
SW Atlanta
FOX 5 Atlanta

Man arrested by SWAT at Atlanta hotel

Police arrived and saw the man allegedly throwing things out of a hotel window. He was arrested without incident.

ATLANTA - Atlanta police said a SWAT team breached a hotel room and arrested a man inside after a standoff early Saturday morning in southwest Atlanta.

Someone reported gunshots to Atlanta police at around 2:33 a.m. Police went to a hotel on Forrest Hills Drive and saw a man throwing things outside a broken hotel window.

Police tried to talk to the man, who didn't come out of the hotel.

Police requested a SWAT team. Investigators didn't say if the man was armed.

Police said the man was arrested without incident and there were no injuries.