Police Standoff With Armed Woman Shuts Down Richmond Highway over 11 hours

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By Jackie Bensen, News4 Reporter
NBC4 Washington

Police are in a tense standoff on Richmond Highway in the Hybla Valley area with an armed woman in an incident that may be connected to the case of two missing Maryland women.

For the safety of the public, Richmond Highway–the major artery through the area–has been shut down for over 11 hours as of 11 p.m.

Authorities said they were asked by another law enforcement agency to perform a welfare check in an area just up the street at around 11 a.m. They said they were checking for a missing person in potential danger.

Outside a Quality Inn Motel, they encountered a distraught woman.

“When we responded there, there was a woman who said she had been abducted, and the suspect vehicle had just fled. So we began searching the area, and that’s when one of our officers found the vehicle, and it led to a pursuit and ended here,” Lt. James Curry said. “She did display a firearm to the officers during that first traffic stop, and that’s led to the response that you see here.”

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