Report of shots brought SWAT teams to quiet street
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 05/31/07
PLUMSTED — After a six-hour manhunt that disrupted a quiet neighborhood and kept residents from their homes, a man sought in connection with a report of a shooting was in police custody late Wednesday night.
Shortly before 11:30 p.m., Adam Lloyd, 26, of Lakewood Road in the New Egypt section of Plumsted, surrendered to a Plumsted police officer on Route 537 after a 15-minute negotiation via cell phone, according to Capt. Jeff Harper of the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office.
Although Lloyd did not have a gun on him when he surrendered, police later recovered a gun in the woods after he told them where to find it. It was unclear who owned the gun.
Lloyd apparently arrived at the home of his girlfriend, Sandra Teehan, who lives at 48 Tower Road with her parents. He and Teehan have a child together, according to Plumsted police Lt. George Titko.
Lloyd and Teehan had an argument, during which Lloyd apparently threatened to kill himself and fired two shots outside the house, then took off into the woods with the gun. Their child was not home at the time, and it was unclear where Teehan's parents were.
Streets blocked off
Residents were being let back into the area, where roads had been blocked off as police officers, including state SWAT teams and helicopters from Philadelphia, searched the woods.
Harper said authorities received a report of shots fired and possibly a barricaded subject at around 5:20 p.m. Wednesday. By the time police responded, Lloyd had left the house and was in nearby woods.
Throughout Wednesday night, authorities combed the woods both on foot and from helicopters overhead. For a time, residents unable to return to their homes in the neighborhood of roughly 50 to 60 houses watched the manhunt unfold.
An officer could be seen in a camouflage suit with a high-powered rifle, as a Philadelphia police helicopter circled overhead. Along Route 537, police — including officers from Lakewood, Jackson and Freehold — were stationed at every cross street.
Around 10 p.m., police said that some roads into the area were being opened and closed on a rotating basis as the search progressed. State troopers with shotguns and officers with dogs could be seen in the vicinity of a command post; they declined to speak to a reporter or to provide any further information.
State Police and officers from Plumsted, Manasquan and Jackson were among those responding, as well as the Ocean County sheriff's tactical team and Ocean County Regional SWAT Team North.
As the helicopters and SWAT teams combed the area, family members of residents could be seen waiting anxiously on the streets.
2 comments:
Good thing the suspect didn't show up at BIG AL"S. He would have been mortadella.
Good point.....he might have been part of my next hoagie.....
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