Gwinnett SWAT Standoff Ends Peacefully

 Updated 10:40 a.m. 

A man fired shots at Gwinnett Police and SWAT teams Tuesday morning, then barricaded himself in a Norcross area apartment. The standoff ended around 9 a.m. when he surrendered to police. 

Kelvin Barefield,43, has been taken into custody, and crime scene investigators are currently gathering more information in the case. 

Officers responded to a call of a domestic disturbance at the Grove at Stonebrook Apartments at 1405 Beaver Ruin Rd. around 5 a.m., according to Cpl. Jake Smith of Gwinnett Police. 

Gwinnett Police officers were fired on when they attempted to approach the apartment. A SWAT team was called in and the man reportedly also fired on the team of about 40. The man decided to surrender peacefully at around 9 a.m., according to Smith. 

Neighbors returned home from a night out around 3 a.m. said they saw a man in Apt. 1010 throwing things out of his apartment and onto the street. 

"He was throwing stuff out of his window--big stuff, like fans--and saying crazy things," said Michael Diaz, who lives in unit 1103, directly across from Barefield's home. His cousin made the initial call to the police. 

Diaz and his friends watched the situation unfold from his window. He said the man was "talking trash to police" and also saying erratic things like his mother was a part of the FBI. He was also talking about his wife of two years, making derrogitory comments. The neighbors said they never saw the woman and believe that she was not home during the incident. 

A social-media report from the scene said, "The swat team told me to stay in the house..." 

"They kept saying that will take him to the VA hospital over the intercom," according to the social-media report.