Katie Nelson

knelson@argusleader.com

A five-hour standoff at an apartment complex east of Dunham Park in western Sioux Falls ended around 3 p.m. on Saturday after one person surrendered peacefully.

SWAT, a mobile command center, a bomb squad and several police vehicles were at 5009 W. Equestrian Place starting at about 10 a.m. The units left leaving shortly after 3 p.m.

The incident began at about 9:30 a.m. when officers went to the apartment to help someone pick up property. When they got there, a man in the apartment was threatening to kill himself and was armed, Sgt. Adam Petersen said in a statement.

Police officers tried to get the man to put down the weapons and come out but he would not. SWAT and a Crisis Negotiation Unit were called in to help, due to potential danger to residents and officers.

The man was taken to the Jamison Annex at the South Dakota State Penitentiary for parole violation and was given mental health assistance, Sgt. Petersen said.

Matt Petersen, the manager of the Foxmoor Apartments, where the incident took place, said residents were free to return to their apartments at 3:10 p.m. Residents began evacuating shortly after 10 a.m., he said.

Petersen said the incident involved a person who is not a resident of the apartments.

"It ended the way it should, which was peacefully," he said. "(The residents') safety is priority to us. We can't control what happens or where bad things occur. What we can control is how we react to those situations."

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A resident was in her apartment on the first floor of Foxmoor at about 10 a.m. Saturday morning when she heard someone talking loudly in the hallway to someone in a unit across the hall from her.

"She said, 'You can put the gun down,'" the resident said.

The resident said an officer knocked on her door and told her to lock the door and go to the back bedroom. Later, an officer told her to evacuate.