Suspect in custody after 16-hour barricade in Northeast Baltimore; nearby schools closed

A 16-hour barricade situation in Northeast Baltimore ended Monday afternoon when Baltimore Police took a man into custody “without incident,” the department said.

Baltimore Police did not immediately identify the 44-year-old man because he had not been processed or charged as of Monday afternoon. The barricade started Sunday night around 8:30 p.m. when the man got into a dispute with a neighbor, fired his gun into the air and then returned to his house at the 3800 block of Sinclair Lane in the Belair-Edison neighborhood.

The man told officers that he would not leave his house, which prompted SWAT officers and crisis negotiators to arrive at the scene, police said. The man left the residence at 1:10 p.m. Monday.

The incident resulted in several street closures and canceled classes at two nearby schools. Streets off Sinclair Lane — Chesterfield, Eastmont, Coleman and Erdman avenues — were closed Monday morning during the incident.

Baltimore City Public Schools officials closed Sinclair Lane Elementary School, which is down the street, because of the barricade. Andre Riley, a school spokesperson, said employees called parents in the morning to inform them about the closure. The nearby Archbishop Curley High School also closed because of the police incident.

At the scene Monday morning, an armored SWAT vehicle was parked facing a brick rowhouse on Sinclair Lane near its intersection with Chesterfield Avenue. The neighborhood was mostly quiet except for the drone of a police helicopter circling overhead.

Baltimore Police set up their command center, along with an ambulance and other emergency vehicles, in the parking lot of Archbishop Curley.