Louisville man arrested after allegedly barricading himself with baby admitted to Sunday shooting

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A man arrested after a standoff with Louisville police near St. Matthews Monday afternoon barricaded himself inside a home with a 6-month old and later confessed to a shooting.

Officers responded to the 100 block of Wiltshire Avenue just after 12 p.m. on a trouble run, Louisville Metro Police Spokesperson Aaron Ellis said in a statement. That’s off Wilmington Avenue and Shelbyville Road, not far from Breckenridge Lane, in the city’s Rockcreek Lexington Road neighborhood.

Investigators said an armed man who “may have been dealing with a mental crisis and had forced someone out of the residence” was barricaded inside a home with a 6-month-old baby, Ellis said…

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