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ONLY THE RESIDENTS OF THE BUILDING BUT HUNDREDS MORE THROUGH THE COMPLEX. ARMORED VEHICLES ROLLED IN AS RESIDENTS FILED OU IT HAPPENED AT THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX AT THE HINGHAM SHIPYARD. >> IT’S KIND OF SURREAL. IT’S LIKE, WOW, WE’VE GOT EVERYBODY TEXTING US, OH MY GOSH, ARE YOU GUYS OK? YEAH, WE’RE FINE. DAVID: POLICE SAY IT STARTED AS A DOMESTIC DISPUTE IN THIS BUILDING. BY THE TIME OFFICERS SHOWED UP PERSON WHO’D BEEN BARRICADED , ONE INSIDE A BEDROOM WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE. BUT THEY SAY ANOTHER PERSON, A MAN WITH A GUN, STARTED SHOOTING. >> EVERYONE SHELTER IN PLACE OUT OF THIS AREA PLEASE, OK? WE HAVE A SUSPECT SHOOTING OUT THE WINDOW AT US. DAVID: THE GUNSHOTS HIT ONE OF THE ARMORED VEHICLES BUT NO OFFICERS WERE HURT. FIREFIGHTERS USED LADDER TRUCKS TO EVACUATE SOME RESIDENTS FROM UPPER FLOORS. WHILE OTHERS HUNKERED DOWN AND STAYED AWAY FROM THEIR WINDOWS >> I JUST STARTED TO RESCHEDULE WHAT I HAD PLANNED FOR EARLIER TODAY. AND OTHER THAN THAT, JUST STAYING HOME, AND LIKE THEY SAID ALSO AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS. DAVID: AFTER NEARLY FOUR O NATIONS, POLICE SAY THEY WERE ABLE TO CONVINCE THE MAN TO PUT DOWN IS GOING TO COME OUT. >> SO HE WAS ABLE TO SURRENDER. HE DID NOT JUST AFTER 12:15, 12:30 P.M. HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT AT THAT TIME. DAVID: NEIGHBORS, AND THEIR PETS, WHO’D BEEN COOPED UP WERE FINALLY ABLE TO LEAVE. FOR MANY, THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THEY’VE COME CLOSE TO VIOLENCE. >> NORMALLY YOU JUST HERE AT CAT IN A TREE OR SOMEONE FALLING DOWN IN THE GROCERY STORE. YOU KNOW, NOTHING REALLY HAPPENS. IT’S REALLY VERY QUIET. SO THIS IS REALLY UNUSUAL. DAVID: TONIGHT, GINGHAM POLICE ARE NOT READY TO RELEASE THE NAME OF THE

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A Hingham man was arrested after he barricaded himself inside an apartment near the Hingham Shipyard and shot at SWAT officers, according to police.After three hours of negotiations, 37-year-old Pharaoh L. Yahtues gave himself up and was arrested without further incident.Police said no officers or civilians were injured.Officers were dispatched at 6:19 a.m. Saturday to an apartment on HMS Fitzroy Drive for a domestic disturbance in an apartment.Upon arrival, officers spoke with a woman who had two children with her in the lobby. They had been in the third-floor apartment and said a man inside, identified as Yahtues, had a handgun.Officers then spoke to Yahtues through the apartment door in an attempt to get him to come outside. He threatened to shoot officers through the walls and made statements about "suicide by cop."Another man who was inside the apartment called 911 and told police that he had locked himself in a bedroom for his own safety.Police then began evacuating nearby apartments and the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council SWAT team was called to the scene. A reverse 911 and an emergency alert text message were sent out in the area, ordering residents to shelter in place and to stay away from windows."It was calamity," said area resident Kelli Johnson. "I was evacuated by the SWAT team and was holed up in the clubhouse for a while, and now they're letting us get out."Members of the SWAT team eventually used a Hingham Fire Department ladder truck to reach the third-floor bedroom.Yahtues fired several shots from his apartment window at SWAT officers who were inside and around an armored SWAT vehicle, according to police. The shots struck the vehicle but no officers were hit by gunfire."We found out that there was a shooting, or shooter, and of course that's really nerve-wracking when you hear that," said Rick Allen, whose son and daughter-in-law live in the area.Police said Yahtues also threw an explosive device onto his patio that did not detonate and resulted in no injuries. Additional people were evacuated from other apartments by police.Yahtues agreed to surrender after several hours of negotiations with the Metro-LEC crisis negotiation team. He came outside his apartment at 12:45 p.m. and was taken into custody without incident.The Massachusetts State Police bomb squad searched the apartment for additional explosives and after it was deemed safe, residents were allowed back into their homes. Hingham detectives obtained a search warrant for the apartment and later recovered a semi-automatic handgun that was hidden in a ceiling vent.The evacuations and shelter-in-place order affected hundreds of Hingham residents.Abington firefighters told NewsCenter 5's David Bienick that they used a ladder truck to evacuate people who lived in upper-floor apartments."Hingham is very safe. Normally, we just hear about a cat in a tree or someone falling down in the store," said resident Robert Montgomery. "Nothing really happens. It's very quiet, so this is really unusual." Yahtues faces multiple charges, including armed assault to murder, discharging an explosive, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, second offense of possession of a firearm without a license, possession of ammunition without an FID card, disturbing the peace and possession of a theft detection removal device.Police said additional charges may be brought against Yahtues. A temporary warrant was issued for his arrest during the incident by the probation department because the GPS tracking device he had been ordered to wear was cut off, according to police.Yahtues is being held without bail and will be arraigned Monday in Hingham District Court.