Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Three-hour standoff ends peacefully in Hamilton
Three children with man through ordeal
By Janice Morse
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — While on patrol Tuesday, a chilly fall morning, Police Officer Adrian Jackson spotted a woman on a rooftop — screaming, bloody and partially clothed.
Then police learned the woman's alleged attacker had access to a 12-gauge shotgun — and the couple's three children were still inside a house in the 700 block of Front Street.
Firefighters, at their headquarters across the street, used a ladder to help Yvonne Marie Brown to safety, and police spent three hours defusing the volatile situation, said Lt. Scott Scrimizzi, commander of the city's Crisis Negotiations and Special Weapons and Tactics teams.
“We knew he was in there, the three boys were in there, and the wife told us that he had a 12-gauge shotgun in there,” he said.
Charles Everett Brown, 33, at first refused to communicate with police via a portable hostage rescue phone.
But he surrendered peacefully around 5:30 a.m. after his mother arrived to take charge of the boys, ages 10, 12 and 13, Lt. Scrimizzi said.
Mr. Brown, charged with domestic violence, inducing panic and obstructing official business, was released from the Butler County Jail on $10,000 bond.
Lt. Scrimizzi said police had numerous contacts with Mr. Brown, including a prior charge of felonious assault with a firearm.
He said he did not know what led to Tuesday's standoff.
Mrs. Brown, 31, was treated at Mercy Hospital Hamilton for injuries to her mouth, nose, shoulder, foot and neck, police said.
She told officers she was asleep when Mr. Brown entered the home “in an agitated state” and began attacking her, a police report says.
She broke through a second-floor window to escape.
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