Niagara Regional Police have blocked off a Grimsby neighbourhood as crisis negotiators respond to a man in distress.
Officers were called to the area of Murray and Olive streets, just north of the QEW, at around 10 a.m. Wednesday morning after a man barricaded himself inside a home beside a daycare centre.
Police allege two officers were assaulted by the man, but were not injured.
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Nearby Lakeview Public School was put in lockdown “out of an abundance of caution.”
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Police say crisis negotiators, the Emergency Task Unit and uniform officers remain on the scene to help resolve the situation.
Residents are being asked to avoid the area.
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