{"id":21940,"date":"2023-05-27T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=21940"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:12:16","slug":"residents-were-told-to-avoid-the-area-as-dekalb-police-responded-to-the-active-hostage-situation-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=21940","title":{"rendered":"Residents were told to avoid the area as DeKalb police responded to the active hostage situation: WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 DeKalb County police are telling residents to avoid a Lithonia subdivision while they investigate a hostage situation.<\/p>\n

Authorities told Channel 2 Action News there is an active hostage situation inside the residence on Cragstone Court off Covington Highway.<\/p>\n

We’ll have the latest breaking news on Channel 2 Action News at midday.<\/p>\n

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Channel 2’s Christian Jennings said he saw a large police presence including several bomb squad trucks, K9 units and SWAT.<\/p>\n

Police said the suspect is armed.<\/p>\n

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Police are telling area residents to stay inside. <\/p>\n

Authorities have not provided any additional details about the situation.<\/p>\n

The investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n

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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. \u2014 DeKalb County police are telling residents to avoid a Lithonia subdivision while they investigate a hostage situation. Authorities told Channel 2 Action News there is an active hostage situation inside the residence on Cragstone Court off Covington Highway. We’ll have the latest breaking news on Channel 2 Action News at midday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Channel 2’s Christian Jennings said he saw a large police presence including several bomb squad trucks, K9 units and SWAT. Police said the suspect is armed. TRENDING STORIES: Police are telling area residents to stay… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21942,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21940\/revisions\/21942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}