DeKalb Man Jailed After 8-Hour SWAT Standoff: Reports

DECATUR, GA — A DeKalb County man is behind bars and facing criminal charges after an eight-hour standoff Tuesday morning with DeKalb police officers, including a SWAT team, according to media reports. Tyler Bass, 30, is being held in the county jail on a charge of aggravated assault strangulation and two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The standoff began at 3 a.m. Tuesday at Bass's home on Rock Knoll Drive, the AJC reported. Police responded to the report of a domestic dispute at the house and confronted Bass in the front yard, carrying a handgun, a police spokesman told the AJC.

Bass and the officers exchanged gunfire in the dark, but nobody was wounded, the AJC reported. Bass then retreated into his home, and the police summoned SWAT negotiators to the scene and evacuated other homes in the neighborhood.

As Bass barricaded himself inside the house, a woman who lives there came out to speak with the officers. An argument between Bass and the unidentified woman had led to the domestic disturbance call.

The woman is the only other occupant of the house and did not appear to be injured, the police spokesman told the AJC.

Bass came out of the house at about 10:40 a.m. and surrendered to the police after talking to his mother on the phone, the AJC reported. He was then booked into the DeKalb County Jail.

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