NEW ORLEANS — Update: Shortly before 12:00 A.M., NOPD peacefully ended the Swat Roll in the 7700 block of Alabama Street. Police apprehended 43-year-old Lester Robert Dyer III without incident.
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A SWAT team has been on the scene of a standoff where a 43-year-old man has barricaded himself inside of a home and fired at NOPD officers since early afternoon, according to the New Orleans Police.
The NOPD said that no officers were injured.
According to police, the incident started as a domestic dispute involving a mother and her 43-year-old son. Police responded to the scene on a call of an aggravated battery. Shots were fired as the officers were on the scene.
The mother was able to get away from the scene and she was being treated for a non-gunshot injury.
The incident began shortly after noon in the 7700 block of Alabama Street.
