SAPULPA — Police are involved in a standoff with a man at a small apartment complex near downtown Sapulpa.

The man and a woman were fighting, and he ran into their apartment near Thompson Avenue and Park Street and wouldn't let the woman in, police said.

She and some neighbors called the police just before 4 p.m., and she told officers that the man had a handgun in the apartment with him, police said.

A SWAT team has been using a public address system to call for the man to come outside since shortly before 5 p.m., but he has made no move to come out.

The other apartments in the building have been evacuated.

Police have been deploying items that make a boom noise into the apartment in attempts to get the man to come outside but have not said what devices they're using.

The man has past convictions and cannot legally have a gun, police said. The did not release his name but said he is 33 years old.

Paighten Harkins 918-581-8455 paighten.harkins@tulsaworld.com Twitter: @PaightenHarkins

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