Police Surround Empty Roanoke House for Five Hours

Police emergency teams spent five hours surrounding a house in the Huntington County town of Roanoke yesterday, only to discover it was empty. The incident began when a man told police he was worried that he had not heard from his mother, who has a protective order against her husband. The husband had previously threatened to kill police officers and himself. A short time later, several people who live near the man’s Roanoke reported hearing a gunshot. That’s when police called in Fort Wayne’s emergency teams, who eventually got a call from the woman, saying the couple was in a Huntington hotel. They arrested the man without incident for violating the protective order. Police believe the noise neighbors heard must have been a vehicle backfiring.