The Herald Bulletin - Two in custody after west-side standoff

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Anderson police take a second suspect into custody after a standoff in the 2000 block of Beverly Court on Monday afternoon. Police continued to watch the house until a SWAT team arrived on scene to clear the house.
Aaron Piper / The Herald Bulletin

Anderson police were summoned to the scene of a standoff in the 2000 block of Beverly Court on Anderson's west side Monday afternoon. Two suspects were taken into custody and a SWAT team eventually called in.
Aaron Piper / The Herald Bulletin

Officers place handcuffs on a suspect at the scene of a standoff in the 2000 block of Beverly Court on Monday afternoon. The SWAT team was called to the scene when police learned the house might contain weapons.
Aaron Piper / The Herald Bulletin

An Anderson police officer kept his rifle trained on a house at 2040 Beverly Court on Monday. Police blocked off streets in the Brentwood neighborhood where two suspected gunmen were taken into custody.
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Neighbors and onlookers gather outside a house in the 2000 block of Beverly Court. The Anderson SWAT team cleared the house after a standoff led to the apprehension of two suspected gunmen.
Aaron Piper / The Herald Bulletin

Published November 03, 2009 08:12 am - ANDERSON — Two men surrendered to police after an hour-long standoff in a west side Anderson home Monday afternoon. Anderson police on the scene indicated that the men were believed to have been involved in a shoot-out nearby. Shortly before 1 p.m., officers established a perimeter around the home at 2040 Beverly Court with the two men inside.

Two in custody after west-side standoff
Mother uses answering machine to coax son out of west-side house

By Brandi Watters, Aleasha Sandley and Dave Stafford

The Herald Bulletin

ANDERSON — Two men surrendered to police after an hour-long standoff in a westside Anderson home Monday afternoon.

Anderson police said that the men were believed to have been involved in a shootout nearby.

Shortly before 1 p.m., officers established a perimeter around the home at 2040 Beverly Court with the two men, 18-year-old Terry Johnson and 19-year-old Tiras Johnson, inside.

The two had holed themselves up inside the house, where Tiras Johnson lives, after they allegedly shot a car, truck and house while following another car, said Anderson Police Department Sgt. Bill Casey.

Casey said a woman, who was in a car in front of that of Terry Johnson and Tiras Johnson, called police to report the car was being followed. Police think the following and shooting were retaliation for a fight in September in which Tiras Johnson was involved, Casey said.

Both men, who are not related, were arrested on suspicion of Class C felony criminal recklessness after police questioned them about Monday’s incident, Casey said. Police have yet to find the weapon used in the alleged shooting, but were searching two vehicles Monday night.

About a half dozen officers with rifles and bullet-proof vests surrounded the small white home Monday afternoon and trained their weapons on the door until Terry Johnson came outside and surrendered.

Within half an hour, Tiras Johnson emerged from the house with his arms in the air.

A woman who refused to give her name but was addressed by police as the owner of the home said her son is Tiras Johnson, the second suspect to surrender.

Using a cordless land-line telephone tucked in the pocket of her sweater, the woman called the home and used the answering machine as an intercom to talk to her son.

“I called the house and told him to come out,” she said.

Before calling the home, the woman urged police to allow her inside the house, convinced that she could get the men to surrender.

Officers told her it wasn’t safe and informed her to stay out of the line of fire.

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