LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. — Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and the Gaston County Sheriff's Office SWAT team brought a 13-hour hostage situation in northern Lincoln County to an end shortly after midnight.
The incident involved a barricaded subject in a mobile home on Woodland Hills Trail holding two adult females hostage. Shortly after midnight, flash-bang grenades were exploded and the SWAT team breached the door of the mobile home taking the suspect in custody, the sheriff's office reports.
According to deputies, they approached the mobile home along Woodland Hills Trail with Gaston County Probation and Patrol officers at 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday. They say the man they wanted, 40-year-old Patrick Andrew Shomo, tried running out of the back of the mobile home but ran back inside when he saw officers. He then reportedly held two women inside as his hostages throughout the ordeal.
After SWAT breached the door, Shomo was taken into custody and the two women were freed from the mobile home. He was wanted in Gaston County on trafficking charges, officials said. No one was injured in the incident.
Later Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff's office Shomo was charged with kidnapping, discharging a firearm into occupied property, and possession of a firearm by a felon. He's currently in jail under a secured $675,000 bond in Lincoln County but was not granted a bond from Gaston County.
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