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Posted: 7:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Hostage Standoff in Johns Creek is Over

By Larry Hartstein

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A hostage situation in Johns Creek ended peacefully early Tuesday.

A man had been holding his 9-year-old son hostage in a car at a shopping center at Jones Bridge Road near Old Alabama Road. There was no evidence that the man was armed or threatened the boy. The standoff ended around 6 a.m. when the man surrendered to police. The boy was not injured.

CBS Atlanta quoted Johns Creek spokeswoman Rosemary Taylor as saying the incident began at about 1:40 a.m. Tuesday and was the result of a domestic dispute.