PIKETON, Ohio — A standoff ended outside Piketon along Route 32 with an armed gunman on Thursday.
Troopers said they were in a high speed chase with a man named Dakota Lansing, from Pike County. He was wanted for felony fleeing out of Jackson. Troopers tried to make a traffic stop on a vehicle he was driving, but he gave chase. During one point, he rammed two patrol cars; no troopers were injured, but they opened fire on the car as it rammed them.
Lansing went to his parents’ house on Smokey Hollow Road.
Lansing had nearly two dozen troopers, deputies, and the state fire marshal at gunpoint as he barricaded himself in the house, which belongs to his parents.
A SWAT team, a hostage negotiator, the fire department, and a drone were on the scene.
Helicopters were hovering overheard, snipers were perched along route 32, which was down to one lane — closed entirely at one point — and Smokey Hollow Road was closed.
Just before 2 p.m., the situation came to a “resolution” after Lansing was taken into custody without incident.
