GARLAND, Texas - An armed nursing home employee who was fired Tuesday barricaded himself in the building with some residents still inside, police said. No injuries were immediately reported in the standoff in this Dallas suburb. An unknown number of residents were still inside, and some employees stayed behind to take care of them, police spokesman Joe Harn said. Some residents managed to get out, but Harn said he did not know how many. ''There are still people inside, but nobody is in there that we consider a hostage,'' Harn said. A SWAT team was called in, and police were talking with the man, Harn said. The Castle Manor nursing home has about 100 residents.
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Suspect Surrenders in Texas Nursing Home Standoff
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Law enforcement officers, right, evacuate employees from the Castle Manor Nursing Home, April 3.
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Law enforcement officers patrol near the Castle Manor Nursing Home, Tuesday, April 3 in Garland, Texas.
A nursing home employee who was fired returned with a handgun and took four hostages Tuesday before surrendering three hours later, police said. No one was injured. Ernie Smith, 27, was fired Friday but came back Tuesday to the Castle Manor nursing home in this Dallas suburb, said police spokesman Joe Harn. He took four hostages but released one after negotiating with police, Harn said. He released the other three shortly before giving himself up. Gary Rigsby, whose mother is a resident at the nursing home, told The Dallas Morning News that he spoke on the phone with a nurse who had a gun stuck in her face. The nurse told him the gunman was holding two other employees. Nursing home employee Donald Eubanks told The Dallas Morning News that Smith had worked there for about three months and "seemed to be a nice guy." A telephone call by The Associated Press to the nursing home went unanswered Tuesday. Smith's mother, Nisey Smith, told television station KTVT that her son went back to the facility "because he wanted the whole wide world to know how he had been mistreated on the job." She said he told her by phone that he didn't want to hurt anyone. His nephew talked him into surrendering, she said. A SWAT team was called in, and police talked with the man, Harn said. Smith was taken to the Garland jail. Police have not decided what charges he will face, Harn said.
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