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Pittsburgh Police and SWAT team members respond to the call of an emotionally disturbed individual who was barricaded in a hotel room on Sunday at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Downtown. The individual has been transported to a local hospital for further evaluation.
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SWAT situation at Downtown Pittsburgh hotel ends peacefully

Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette

SWAT situation at Downtown Pittsburgh hotel ends peacefully

A SWAT situation ended peacefully at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Downtown on Sunday afternoon.

Pittsburgh police and SWAT officers responded to the scene around noon when an “emotionally disturbed individual” refused to leave a hotel room.

“The emotionally disturbed person didn’t want to come out,” police Cmdr. Vic Joseph said. “[The person] eventually complied.”

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Cmdr. Joseph said no weapons were involved. The person was transported to a local hospital for evaluation. No charges have been filed.

Police spokesperson Chris Togneri would not provide any information on the individual or confirm the hotel room number.

For roughly two hours, a large police presence congregated outside the hotel at 745 Grant St.

At least 14 marked Pittsburgh police vehicles and one ambulance, as well as several unmarked police vehicles, parked along the street and hotel driveway. Cmdr. Joseph said the large response was out of precaution.

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Guests standing outside said they had been evacuated.

Hotel employees declined to comment.

The 207-room hotel is located in the renovated Federal Reserve Bank of Pittsburgh, next to the William S. Moorhead Federal Building on Grant Street.

Ashley Murray: 412-263-1750, amurray@post-gazette.com or on Twitter at @Ashley__Murray

First Published: November 25, 2018, 6:32 p.m.

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Pittsburgh Police and SWAT team members respond to the call of an emotionally disturbed individual who was barricaded in a hotel room on Sunday at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Downtown. The individual has been transported to a local hospital for further evaluation.  (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)
Members of the Pittsburgh police SWAT team leave the scene of the Drury Plaza Hotel in Downtown, where an emotionally disturbed individual was barricaded in a hotel room.  (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)
A member of the Pittsburgh police SWAT team leaves the scene of the Drury Plaza Hotel in Downtown, where an emotionally disturbed individual was barricaded in a hotel room.  (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)
Pittsburgh EMS and SWAT team members prepare to take a stretcher into the Drury Plaza Hotel in Downtown on Sunday. Authorities later transported a person to a hospital after briefly being barricaded in a room at the hotel.  (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)
A member of the Pittsburgh police SWAT team leaves the scene of the Drury Plaza Hotel in Downtown, where an emotionally disturbed individual was barricaded in a hotel room.  (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)
Police and SWAT were called to the Drury Plaza Hotel on Grant Street in Downtown on Sunday.  (Ashley Murray/Post-Gazette)
Pittsburgh Police and SWAT team respond to an emotionally disturbed individual barricaded in a hotel room Sunday Nov. 25, 2018, at the Drury Plaza Hotel Downtown. The individual has been transported to a local hospital for further evaluation. (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)  (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)
Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette
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