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Charges pending after nearly 2-hour SWAT standoff in West Pullman

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A 47-year-old man was taken into custody following a two-hour SWAT standoff in West Pullman. The man allegedly fired shots into the air before retreating into a home, where he eventually surrendered to police.

An intoxicated man holed up inside a home who caused a nearly 2-hour long standoff is in police custody after firing a gun early Friday in West Pullman, police said. Around 12:10 a.m. a SWAT incident was declared when a woman called 911 and officers responded to a home in the 12700 block of South Lowe Avenue where a drunken 47-year-old man she knows briefly left the home and fired multiple shots into the air before going back inside, Chicago police said. The man willingly left the home around…

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