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TENSE MOMENTS, RECORDED ON CELL PHONE VIDEO, AS A FATHER, WANTED FOR KIDNAPPING HIS CHILDREN AT GUNPOINT, SURRENDERS TO POLICE. >> VERY DANGEROUS PERSON, IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME. YOU CAN’T TELL BY LOOKING, I GUESS. TRE: THE SWAT STANDOFF, LASTING FOR 3 HOUR. >> WE HAD BEEN HEARING THEM SAY, " “ANTONIO COME OUT, WE’RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE UNTIL YOU DO.” TRE: WITH NEIGHBORS, WATCHING THROUGH THEIR WINDOWS. >> THE WHOLE TIME YOU’RE SITTING THERE THINKING, IS IT GOING TO BE GUNSHOTS? ARE THEY GOING TO BUST THROUGH THE DOOR? TRE: IT BEGAN THURSDAY NIGHT AT A HOME ON GREEN COVE CIRCLE. POLICE TELL US, AFTER AN EARLIER ARGUMENT, ANTONIO WILLIAMSON RETURNED TO HIS CHILDREN’S MOTHER’S HOUSE, ARMED WITH A GUN, RIPPING HIS 8-MONTH-OLD SON OUT OF HER ARMS. WHEN SHE TRIED TO STOP HIM, INVESTIGATORS SAY HE PUT THE GUN TO THE BABY’S HEAD, THREATENING TO SHOOT HIM IF THE WOMAN DIDN’T LET GO. >> EVEN IF HE HAD NO INTENTIONS ON ACTUALLY SHOOTING THE CHILD, ACCIDENTS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME. TRE: HE GOT AWAY WITH THE BOY AND THE WOMAN’S 10-YEAR-OLD SON BEFORE POLICE SURROUNDED HIS HOME HOURS LATER. >> WHEN YOU SEE HIM SURRENDER, THAT’S WHEN WE HAD A SIGH OF RELIEF. TRE: JUST DAYS AFTER NEIGHBORS SAY HE MOVED IN. >> THAT HOUSE IS LEASED AND WE JUST HAD SOMEBODY MOVE OUT A FEW WEEKS AGO, SO YOU NEVER KNOW WHO YOU’RE GOING TO GET. >> HOPEFULLY, THEY WON’T BE COMING BACK. TRE: WILLIAMSON IS DUE IN COURT TOMORROW MORNING. LIVE DOWNTOWN, TRE WARD, W

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