Richmond standoff ends with arrest
Posted July 10, 2020 7:21 am.
RICHMOND (NEWS 1130) – An hours-long standoff in Richmond has come to an end.
Mounties say a person has been taken into custody after officers were called to the Hamilton area Thursday for reports of a man with a gun.
The RCMP received the report just after 5:00 p.m. in the area of Gilley Road and Westminster Highway.
“Upon further investigation, the Lower Mainland Emergency Response Team was requested to attend,” the RCMP says in a release.
The standoff forced the lockdown of a townhouse complex in the area, but the Richmond RCMP says the incident was brought to a “successful conclusion” Friday, around 6:00 a.m.
Gilley Road, which had been shut down since Thursday evening, has since reopened.