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Chess match goes awry, leads to standoff with Bellevue Police

Jul 18, 2013, 9:07 AM | Updated: May 13, 2016, 10:59 pm

Bellevue Police on the scene of an early morning standoff at an apartment complex, Thursday, July 18, 2013. Bellevue Police send in a robot to assess the situation inside an apartment where a man is in a standoff with cops, Thursday, July 18, 2013. Bellevue Police stand on the perimeter of the stand-off scene on Wednesday, July 18, 2013. A Bellevue Police bomb squad robot heads into the scene of a standoff at an apartment complex near Bellevue Way on Thursday, July 18, 2013. Bellevue police are on the scene of a standoff, Thursday, July 18, 2013. Police deploy pepper spray an attempt to coax out a man they are in a standoff with in Bellevue on Wednesday, July 18, 2013.

From checkmate to gunpoint in Bellevue.

An argument during a chess match turned into a standoff near 108th Southeast and Bellevue Way on Thursday.

A man pulled a gun on his neighbor in an apartment complex around 2 a.m., according to Bellevue police.

It took nearly seven hours to coax the man out of his apartment. Bellevue Police’s Carla Iafrate said the man had barricaded himself inside with a gun. He was alone and had no hostages.

Negotiators attempted to talk to the man with hopes he would surrender. Police threw multiple rounds of tear gas into the home.

KIRO Radio reporter Chris Sullivan said despite standing some distance from the scene, he was feeling the effects of the tear gas being thrown into the apartment.

The Bellevue Bomb Squad also sent in a robot to assess the situation.

Several streets were blocked during the standoff, including Bellevue Way. Those roads were reopened when police took the man into custody shortly after 10 a.m.

KIRO Radio’s Chris Sullivan and MyNorthwest.com’s Alyssa Kleven contributed to this report.

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