MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office announced the peaceful arrest of a man after a three-hour standoff in Cordova.
SCSO deputies responded to a critical incident involving a man who barricaded himself inside a home with a 7-month-old child held hostage.
SCSO detectives, SWAT, hostage negotiators, and Homeland Security responded immediately. Deputies learned from the child’s mother that her fiancé had threatened her and other family members with a firearm.
Deputies identified the suspect as 26-year-old Reginald Sanders. During the course of the standoff, he allowed the mother and her 8-year-old child to leave the home safely, but he refused to release the infant…