A gunman was finally taken into custody this morning after shooting a 78-year-old minister in the leg Sunday night and holding off SWAT teams overnight in an Over-the-Rhine building.

        The Rev. Cornell Sweet had just left his church, First Born Church of the Living God at 47 Mulberry St. about 8:45 p.m. and was driving past an apartment building in the same block when he was shot in the leg, police said.

        An officer helped the Rev. Mr. Sweet out of the line of fire, and he was taken to University Hospital. He was treated and released this morning.

        The SWAT team first attempted to enter the apartment at about 11:30 p.m. The man fired again and the SWAT team returned fire. The officers then withdrew from the building.

        No one on the SWAT team was hit.

        The incident began about 8 p.m., according to police reports, and shots continued to be fired by a man in a second-floor apartment on Mulberry Street even as police tried to negotiate.

        The shooter — described as in his 20s and dressed all in black — apparently knew the residents of the apartment and had let several people leave earlier, said Lt. Ray Ruberg, Cincinnati police spokesman.

        Alex Jackson and Pat Howell took cover in their bathroom two doors from the shooting scene about 10 p.m.

        “I'm laying here on the floor listening, and police are evidently trying to talk a guy down. I hear a bullhorn,” Mr. Jackson said by phone.

        Gunshots rang out as he talked.

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