Crime & Safety

Woman With Gun Barricaded Inside Hotel near Falkenburg Road

The woman is threatening to harm herself

A woman with a gun has barricaded herself inside the Red Roof Inn, near the corner of Falkenburg Road and Adamo Drive in Brandon, according to a news release from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. The address of the hotel is 10121 Horace Ave.

Memebers of the SWAT team are near the hotel with negotiators from the sheriff's office.

The woman is threatening to hurt herslf, according to the release.

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The sheriff's office has closed Horace Avenue, which runs behind Bob Evans restaurant just north of Adamo Drive. Only people staying in rooms near the room where the woman is barricaded have been evacuated.

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