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A hostage situation in South Richmond ended Monday with a suspect being taken into custody and with another man receiving a gunshot wound to his hand, the police said.

Officers were summoned at 11:29 a.m. to a house in the 2100 block of Dinwiddie Avenue, just east of Jefferson Davis Avenue, for a report of an armed person, the authorities said.

William Smith, the city’s interim police chief, said officers arrived and talked with neighbors but could not locate the armed man, so police cleared the scene.

Police received another call in the same block at 11:52 a.m. reporting that someone had been shot, Smith said.

When officers arrived, they found a person injured and another man holding the victim hostage with a gun to his head, Smith said.

Police summoned the department’s SWAT team and hostage negotiators, and the area was secured.

“The SWAT team made an approach and they were able to take the [suspect] into custody without incident,” Smith said. “They then provided medical support for the person who was injured; he had been shot in the hand. He was conscious and breathing when he was taken to VCU Medical Center.”