Armed man inside a Coral Springs home in custody after a 6-hour standoff, cops say

What Coral Springs police termed “a weapons call” Friday morning turned into a standoff at a home that lasted over six hours.

Police say the suspect, whom they said was armed, he was “taken into custody without incident” at 3:27 p.m. Police had been asking people to avoid the area of the home, around Wiles Road and Creekside Drive since 9:05 a.m. or almost six and a half hours.

WPLG-Channel 10 identified the man as Brandon Hayes, 25.

The house in the Waterside community is where his mother lives. Coral Springs police officer Chris Swinson told media on the scene she was the one who called police after she and her son got into an argument. Swinson said Hayes had fired five shots in the house, then came out and fired two shots in the air.

After police arrived, Swinson said, “He’s made a couple of threats toward officers basically saying if he saw officers or anybody interfering, he would shoot and kill.”

A history with Coral Springs police officers

Florida Department of Corrections records say Hayes began two years on probation on Aug. 24 after a conviction for resisting an officer with violence.

Those officers were from the Coral Springs Police Department who tried to get Hayes to leave the Tijuana Taxi restaurant, 901 N. University Dr. on Oct. 8, 2020. An arrest report says when an angry Hayes tried to get into the kitchen, the manager called police to have him taken off the property.

When Hayes didn’t leave the parking lot by police request, the report says, a group of officers grabbed him to carry him off the lot. In the process, Hayes went limp, pulled away from officers, kicked one officer in the hand, kicked and spat once in the police car and hurled racial slurs at an officer whom he called called “a slave.”