FORT LAUDERDALE — Schools in the area of Southwest 28th Way and Riverland Road in Fort Lauderdale are on lockdown Monday afternoon and residents are urged to stay inside as SWAT officers are responding to a nearby home where a man has barricaded himself.
Casey Liening, a Fort Lauderdale Police spokesperson, said officers initially were called to a domestic dispute in the area about 2:30 p.m. An armed man is barricaded alone inside a home when officers responded and he “fired multiple shots towards arriving officers.”
A woman was injured in the initial domestic dispute, Liening said, and was taken to Broward Health Medical Center. She is expected to recover.
Riverland Road is closed as SWAT officers were still attempting to contact the barricaded man as of about 4 p.m., Liening said. Additional details have not been released.
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