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Police say the hourslong armed standoff at 263 Oaklawn Ave., right across the street from Fairfield Memorial Park, is now over.
Miraculously, Stamford police says no officers were injured.
News 12 Connecticut’s John Craven and Trey DeBourgh were on scene throughout the day and say they heard several rounds of gunfire.
They say they had to duck for cover – along with neighbors and even police.
Officers announced, ”Back up, back up! Gunfire, gunfire! Get out of here!" the moment rapid-fire gunshots first rang out around 12 p.m.
As the day progressed, more rapid-fire rounds came from the home.
Stamford police say a BearCat vehicle took down the front half of the house, but the barricaded subject was still firing on them.
Court records show the home was recently repossessed by Wells Fargo Bank, but it's unclear if that led to the hours-long standoff, which rattled the normally quiet neighborhood.
News 12 Connecticut's Justin DeVellis has been hearing from concerned neighbors.
“I would’ve never thought that we would’ve had a standoff in North Stamford, but here we are. It looks like the whole department, and all the neighborhood departments came to support us. It’s tragic because this is such a quiet neighborhood, there’s lots of kids here. To hear tons of shots go off that sounded like ARs, it sounded like a tree was falling. I hope that this doesn’t happen again in any other neighborhood or city. It’s just an unfortunate situation,” said Mark Exantus of Stamford.
One man said as more and more police cars showed up, he received a shelter-in-place notification on his phone.
Westchester County Police wheeled an armored vehicle down the street just steps from his home.
Cindy Richardson, who has been living in the area for over 20 years, says she's never seen anything like this.
"Terrified, honestly. It's not every day you hear something like that. Even though we're not directly next to it, it's still really loud,” said Richardson. “I just hope that everybody is OK. I've never seen this much activity before. This street is normally pretty quiet, and I'm pretty blown away by all the SWAT cars coming out, it's pretty wild."
A Hazmat team was seen entering the home earlier Tuesday evening.
As of 9 p.m., some neighbors told us they’re still not being let back into their homes.
State police and the inspector general will take over the investigation.