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The Bernards Township Police Department responded alongside the Somerset County SWAT team and the Crisis Negotiators Team to a report of an “emotionally disturbed” resident with a loaded gun at a home on Goltra Drive around 9:45 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 30, Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald said.
A crisis negotiator started speaking with the barricaded man, who exited the bathroom with a handgun several times.
The man dropped the weapon around after a SWAT Team member used a TASER on him as he exited the bathroom around 3:15 p.m. before being taken to a hospital for further evaluation.
No one was hurt during the incident, authorities said.
“Prosecutor McDonald commended the law enforcement response to this situation. The de-escalation tactics along with subsequent deployment of a less lethal device (TASER) resulted in the successful outcome of this incident.”
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