Children Rescued After Hostage Standoff in DeKalb County

The suspect, however, stabbed himself as special officers entered the motel room near Atlanta.

DeKalb County interim Police Chief James Conroy tells WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/1SwUZux ) the man was armed with a knife and refusing to let the other people leave the room.

Officers arrived shortly after 2 a.m.to find a man armed with a knife who refused to come out of a hotel room or to allow a woman and 11 children to leave.

Thomas has been charged with false imprisonment and obstruction, police said. Stephen Fore said in a statement.

The woman, identified as the mother of some-if not all-of the children, placed a 911 call to the Rite for Us Inn and Suites at 4300 Snapfinger Woods Drive in Decatur for a domestic dispute just after 2:00 a.m. Tuesday.

He has been taken to a hospital in critical condition. He faces charges of false imprisonment and obstruction.

11 children and a woman are okay after a SWAT team ended an early morning standoff at a hotel in Decatur, Georgia. Jail records did not list an attorney for him. They gave no more details about the alleged hostage-taker’s wounds.

“Our goal is to keep the family together in a safe situation”, Stovall said.

A Special Weapons And Tactics, or SWAT, team has been called to the rite4us Inn & Suites near Interstate 20 and Wesley Chapel Road in the Decatur area.