Man takes girlfriend and son hostage

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Police officers and a SWAT team are called to a Providence apartment after a man barricades himself inside, taking his pregnant girlfriend and son hostage.

Three Rent A Center employees tell Eyewitness News they were attempting to repossess a couch at an Alabama Avenue residence when they were confronted by two men.

They left the house and later returned. When they knocked on the door of the second floor apartment they claim a man  told to leave the area and seconds later gunshots rang out.

The three men fled the building and called police, prompting officers and the SWAT team to swarm the area, around 11 a.m. Saturday morning.

No one was injured but the suspect barricaded himself inside the apartment. Providence Police say the man took his eight-year-old son and his girlfriend, who is three months pregnant, hostage.

The suspect finally released his son and girlfriend and surrendered after five hours. Neither was injured.

Police have not released the suspect's name or the charges he will face.

Stay with Eyewitness News for more on this developing news story.