TX - Hostage standoff with man with long gun in progress in San Antonio near downtown

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio police and SWAT teams are involved in a standoff with a man, armed with a long gun, who is holding an 18-year-old man hostage inside an apartment complex on Evergreen near McCullough, north of downtown

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Gunfire was heard in the vicinity of a standoff north of downtown at about 12:45 p.m. No further details were immediately available.

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Police have blocked off McCullough and Main avenues between Park and Cypress to all traffic, and some of the streets are closed.

VIA Transit announced on Twitter that bus routes along McCullough and Evergreen have been detoured because of the standoff.

No one has been evacuated from the area, and nearby schools have been alerted about the situation.

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