Hoover Police investigate domestic dispute

Hoover Police investigating a domestic call at Cypress Gardens Apartments surrounded a unit for five-hours Sunday afternoon, April 12, before the dispute ended without injury or arrest.

Although some media who went to the apartment thought it was a hostage situation, Hoover Police spokesman Capt. Gregg Rector said it was “basically a domestic incident involving a male and female.”

Police had been told by neighbors who made the 911 call around 1:30 p.m. Sunday that the man had a gun, and spent five hours trying to talk the couple out of the apartment.

“We got a 911 call but when we got there they refused to answer the door,” Rector said today, April 13. “There was no one being held against their will. The male and female were both worried that they would go to jail if they answered the door, so they refused.”

Rector said Hoover police stayed on the call as long as they did “because we wanted to make absolute certain” no one was injured.’

“The female finally came to the door,” Rector said. “There were no signs of domestic violence. The male left the scene and the female stayed. So no violence, no arrests or anything.”