Neighbors
My friend Warren called me this morning to tell me something crazy had happened in our hometown yesterday. Warren still lives there and is a mail man, so he gets all the good inside dirt. Here's what the local paper had to say about the incident:
STILLWATER -- A six-hour standoff between police and a Staten Island, N.Y.-man ended after he allegedly shot himself with a handgun.
Stillwater Police Chief Anthony Kozlowski said officers were sent to a home on Winding Way at about 9:30 a.m. after a concerned family member called police and asked them to check on Roy Campbell, who was at his mother-in-law's home.
Kozlowski said they located Campbell at the residence, but he refused to come out of the house and would not allow officers to enter. When he began brandishing a handgun, state police were called to the scene to assist.
By 11 a.m., nearly two dozen law enforcement vehicles lined nearby Willow Drive, which was barricaded, leading to the scene. Cars pulling onto Willow Road were immediately met by state police officers and redirected away from the scene. Everyone was kept about two-tenths of a mile from the home.
Police immediately evacuated three homes in the immediate area for the residents' protection. Several other homes in the area were unoccupied because some of the houses are summer-only residences left vacant during the winter months.
"They're all New-Yorkers, none of them are local," said a neighbor who is a year-round resident.
He said police knocked on his door at 11 a.m. and told him to evacuate without telling him what was going on.
"Police didn't tell me anything, just to get out of my house," he said.
At noon, dressed in helmets, and wearing bullet-proof vests, members of the state police's tactical unit arrived in a black armored vehicle. Shortly afterward, they could be heard on bullhorns trying to communicate with Campbell as they surrounded the home.
According to police, tactical units and negotiators from the state police and county sheriff's department, along with a K-9 unit and members of the bomb squad surrounded the home but were unable to make any type of contact with Campbell.
He eventually was located inside the home at about 3:30 p.m. with a self-inflicted wound to his torso, Kozlowski said. He was transported from the scene by the Fredon Township Emergency Squad to Morristown Memorial Hospital, where he still was being evaluated late Wednesday night.
Stillwater Township and Kittatinny Regional High School students who lived in the area were kept in school until the situation was resolved.
The house is across the street from the house I grew up in, where my Dad, my brother and my sister still live. The mother-in law in the story is a woman in her mid 80's who lives in the house year round (that neighbor who said she doesn't is a moron) and she and her (deceased for a few years now) husband used to give me ice pops when I was a kid. Their house smelled like mothballs in the worst way...
Anyway, My brother was apparently woken up and dragged out of the house behind a riot shield in the morning and told to just leave.
My sister is the only teenager on our road, so that plural children thing refers to just her.
Crazy shit. And no one thought to call me afterwards...
STILLWATER -- A six-hour standoff between police and a Staten Island, N.Y.-man ended after he allegedly shot himself with a handgun.
Stillwater Police Chief Anthony Kozlowski said officers were sent to a home on Winding Way at about 9:30 a.m. after a concerned family member called police and asked them to check on Roy Campbell, who was at his mother-in-law's home.
Kozlowski said they located Campbell at the residence, but he refused to come out of the house and would not allow officers to enter. When he began brandishing a handgun, state police were called to the scene to assist.
By 11 a.m., nearly two dozen law enforcement vehicles lined nearby Willow Drive, which was barricaded, leading to the scene. Cars pulling onto Willow Road were immediately met by state police officers and redirected away from the scene. Everyone was kept about two-tenths of a mile from the home.
Police immediately evacuated three homes in the immediate area for the residents' protection. Several other homes in the area were unoccupied because some of the houses are summer-only residences left vacant during the winter months.
"They're all New-Yorkers, none of them are local," said a neighbor who is a year-round resident.
He said police knocked on his door at 11 a.m. and told him to evacuate without telling him what was going on.
"Police didn't tell me anything, just to get out of my house," he said.
At noon, dressed in helmets, and wearing bullet-proof vests, members of the state police's tactical unit arrived in a black armored vehicle. Shortly afterward, they could be heard on bullhorns trying to communicate with Campbell as they surrounded the home.
According to police, tactical units and negotiators from the state police and county sheriff's department, along with a K-9 unit and members of the bomb squad surrounded the home but were unable to make any type of contact with Campbell.
He eventually was located inside the home at about 3:30 p.m. with a self-inflicted wound to his torso, Kozlowski said. He was transported from the scene by the Fredon Township Emergency Squad to Morristown Memorial Hospital, where he still was being evaluated late Wednesday night.
Stillwater Township and Kittatinny Regional High School students who lived in the area were kept in school until the situation was resolved.
The house is across the street from the house I grew up in, where my Dad, my brother and my sister still live. The mother-in law in the story is a woman in her mid 80's who lives in the house year round (that neighbor who said she doesn't is a moron) and she and her (deceased for a few years now) husband used to give me ice pops when I was a kid. Their house smelled like mothballs in the worst way...
Anyway, My brother was apparently woken up and dragged out of the house behind a riot shield in the morning and told to just leave.
My sister is the only teenager on our road, so that plural children thing refers to just her.
Crazy shit. And no one thought to call me afterwards...