Five Barnstable schools closed as SWAT teams surround Cape Cod home

Five Massachusetts schools are under shelter-in-place orders due to a police standoff Wednesday afternoon.

Barnstable High School, Barnstable Middle School, Hyannis West Elementary School, Enoch Cobb Early Learning Center and Barnstable Community Innovation School are under the order, the public school board said.

There are currently no threats directed at any of the schools, officials said.

A SWAT team armed with long guns was seen surrounding a property on St John Street in Hyannis on the Cape Cod Peninsula.

Local police are currently involved in a standoff with a barricaded suspect in the area of ​​Route 28 and Bearses Way in Hyannis.

According to local reports, local police are currently involved in a standoff with a barricaded suspect in the area of ​​Route 28 and Bearses Way in Hyannis.

Police were called to an address on St John Street at 7.41am to reports of an individual holding a person at knifepoint.

The caller informed a police dispatcher that the home’s occupants were able to leave the residence but that the suspect remained inside, NBC reported.

Barnstable Police arrived on scene and restrained the suspect inside the home before the Cape Cod Regional SWAT team arrived shortly after and took command of the incident.

Negotiations with the suspect were ongoing as of 12:30 p.m. and a shelter-in-place remains within a one-mile radius, Barnstable police said.

“No one is allowed to enter or leave our schools, but school operations within the building will continue,” the district wrote in an email to the school community.

The city’s transportation and facilities office is also under a stay-at-home order.