Shootout Ends With Suspect in Custody

A suspect has been taken into custody following an eight hour long standoff in Claremont Thursday, reports WMUR and HereCast.

A shelter in place was ordered in the neighborhood that included Centennial, Hanover, and North Streets in Claremont at 5:20 AM. Shots were fired throughout the morning, but the scene became mostly quiet between 11:30 AM and noon.

Police state that the man at the center of the shootout was 55-year-old Michael Burns. Burns was wanted on two counts of simple assault and one count of criminal threatening prior to the day’s stand-off, and an investigation into this scenario is ongoing and additional charges are expected.

Burns fired “hundreds of rounds” throughout the day, from guns identified by a bystander to sound like “AR” and handgun shots. Remarkably, not a single shot was fired by police throughout the stand-off and there were no injuries sustained, even to Burns. At 2:15 PM, Burns was finally taken into custody by the SWAT team on site.

The Claremont Police Department were accompanied by neighboring stations, the New Hampshire State Police, the state’s SWAT team, and units “as far as Massachusetts.”