For nearly seven hours Monday, Cary police worked to apprehend a man who had fled his home with a gun after an attempted wellness check early that morning.
Police urged local residents to avoid the area in a 2:48 p.m. post to Nextdoor — about six hours into their pursuit of 46-year-old Jonathan Miller and less than an hour before Miller was arrested.
But apart from that post, Cary residents say they had no official indication about what was going on. They are now asking why officials never sent a townwide alert that an armed standoff was unfolding in the eastern Cary neighborhood…