Police negotiators talked the man out of a Monroe Township home and helped an injured woman, authorities said.
A distraught man surrendered hours later to police after he barricaded himself Friday morning in a Monroe Township home with a woman. MONROE TOWNSHIP -- A team of law enforcement officers successfully negotiated with a distraught man and got him to surrender Friday afternoon hours after he barricaded himself inside a township home, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey said.
Carey said the man, whose identity is being withheld, surrendered at 12:55 p.m. and a woman who was located on the second floor of the home was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick with a head injury.
The prosecutor did not give out the address of the home nor did he say whether the man and woman lived in the home.
Carey said no shots were fired during the incident from the time police were called at 9:34 a.m. and no police officers were injured.
He said no charges have been filed against the man pending the outcome of the investigation, which is being handled by the Monroe Township Police Department.
He said shortly after police arrived, officers called for the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Special Operations Response Team (SORT) which arrived a short time later and negotiated with the man.
Carey thanked the response from SORT and the Monroe Township Police Department. He thanked the Manalapan Police Department and the Monmouth County Sheriff's Department, which provided a patrol dog, for their assistance.
Sue Epstein may be reached at sepstein@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @susan_epstein. Find NJ.com on Facebook.