Man arrested after 6-hour SWAT standoff in Channelview

CHANNELVIEW, Texas – A SWAT team responded to a home Friday night after an armed man barricaded himself and his children inside a mobile home near Euclid and Second Streets in Channelview.

Investigators said they were called around 9:30 p.m. because the man yelled at his wife and kicked her out of the house. The man told his wife that if she came back, he would shoot her and/or the kids, according to investigators. 

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After roughly six hours of negotiations, officers finally got the man to surrender. He is now facing multiple charges.

Officials said the children were not hurt.