For more than two decades, residents near the New Haven Police Academy on Sherman Parkway raised concerns about the sounds of gunfire from the shooting range being a nuisance in their neighborhoods.

As of Friday, that outdoor range is closed after the opening of a new indoor facility in a different location.

“(The noise) has increased tangentially over the years because not only are there more policeman, but the guns they use our louder,” Francine Caplan said.

Caplan lives two blocks from the outdoor range and points out there are five schools in the surrounding area. She took the lead in urging New Haven city leaders to build a new NHPD firing range.

“And we wouldn’t give up,” she said. “We pursued it, pursued it.”

Caplan joined New Haven Police Chiefs and elected officials at the ribbon-cutting for the new $1.5 million indoor firing range off Wintergreen Avenue. Mayor Toni Harp said a majority of the funding came from the state.

“This range is one of the nicest ranges in the state of Connecticut and it will probably be utilized by departments all over the state,” said Assistant Chief Luiz Casanova, who added the range will bring in revenue for the city.

A collaboration of New Haven Police and city departments worked with the national manufacturer Range Systems to build a structure that is soundproofed with rock-wool insulation, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn said.

Located near Southern Connecticut State University, Zinn said gunshots won’t be heard on campus or nearby streets.

“When we were here doing the certification the rep from Range Systems said it is one of the quietest ranges that he’s ever heard,” Zinn said, “so we’re very happy about that.”

In her now quieter neighborhood, Caplan said she hopes her home’s value will go up.

“The whole community came together and we were always pro the police,” Caplan said. “We wanted them to have a good training facility and they knew that building that outdoor one in a residential area was not a good idea.”

The new indoor range is built on the site of a former U.S. Army Reserve center. Elected officials thanked Rep. Rosa DeLauro for her role in helping the city acquire the land formerly owned by the federal government.

Chief Anthony Campbell said the delayed recruit class will begin at the police academy at the end of September, but those recruits will not start utilizing the new range until a few months into their training. He said officers already on the force will begin firing at the range much sooner.

The First Alert Weather team has issued a First Alert for Sunday with the threat of heavy rain and severe thunderstorms.  The First Alert covers all of the state for Sunday.

A tropical low will move into the state overnight Saturday into Sunday morning.  Periods of heavy rainfall and gusty winds are possible.

Our team of meteorologists will be keeping an eye on our powerful Doppler radar early Sunday morning when the threat for rotation exists.

Tropical moisture lasts through Monday with the humidity staying with us through next week.

Stay with NBC Connecticut for the latest on this developing severe weather threat.

A major railroad connecting Connecticut to New York may not be upgrading fast enough to meet new safety standards.

The federal agency tasked with overseeing railroads is concerned that Metro-North may not meet their year’s end deadline for installing positive train control, a potentially life-saving safety technology.

• See the original warning letter and Metro-North's response below.

That’s disappointing to Renee Soderberg of Wethersfield, who frequently rides Metro-North.

“You know we say you have to have something done by a deadline but we wait until the 10th hour,” she said.

Positive train control, known as PTC, is a technology that can automatically slow or stop trains, potentially preventing collisions and derailments like one involving a speeding Metro-North train that killed four people in 2013.

PTC has been available for years but many railroads have been slow to adopt the technology.

National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt heads the agency that investigates these kinds of crashes, and has recommended railroads have this technology for years.

“Any delay in implementing positive train control from a safety perspective, is unacceptable,“ said Sumwalt.

The Federal Railroad Administration, or FRA, is the agency overseeing the implementation of this life saving technology on trains across the country.

In late April, it sent Metro-North officials an “at-risk” letter sharing its “…concerns regarding Metro North’s progress towards fully implementing a PTC system.”

The railroad has until December 31 of this year to have PTC installed, or at least meet milestones necessary to apply for a two-year extension.

Metro-North’s most recent quarterly PTC report shows it making progress, and did not prompt an additional warning letter.

But an FRA spokesman told NBC Connecticut Investigates that Metro-North is “still at-risk” unless it continues to make progress installing the safety systems.

Data on the FRA’s website shows that while Metro-North did not get the most recent warning letter, it just missed the threshold for another at risk alert. The dozen railroads that got warning letters had 85 percent or less of their PTC hardware installed. Metro-North had 86 percent complete.

Leaders from Metro-North declined an on-camera interview. A spokesman said the railroad is further along with PTC than the FRA believes, because Metro-North uses a different method to chart its progress.

The spokesman added that the railroad will have its PTC pilot route in operation by December and that it’s nearing a goal of having PTC installed on a majority of its other tracks and locomotives by year’s end, over and above what the feds require to qualify for an extension.

That’s a lofty goal though, based on what Metro-North Railroad president Catherine Rinaldi said at a June meeting.

During the meeting, Rinaldi said, “To the extent that we are still looking to try to place all lines in PTC operations by the end of the year, just given where we are at now, in terms of some of the software issues, that remains significantly at risk.”

The state’s newest passenger railroad, the Hartford Line, says all of its trains should be using PTC soon.

“Our new locomotives that we’ve taken delivery of have the latest hardware and software that will enable them for PTC at the end of the year,” said Rich Andrewski, the chief of public transportation for Connecticut Department of Transportation.

Most of the track the Hartford Line uses is owned by Amtrak, which said it expects PTC to be installed and operating on all the tracks it controls by year’s end.

The FRA said Amtrak has had an earlier version of PTC running on its Northeast Corridor route since 2004.

The agency said Amtrak has made significant progress installing the newer version of PTC on its Northeast Corridor route, but across its whole network it “still has work to do” to have it in place by year’s end.

Amtrak did not provide an on-camera interview, but through a spokesperson, said it will decide on a case by case basis on if it will use its locomotives on tracks that aren’t PTC ready, and if it will allow railroads that aren’t PTC ready to use its tracks.

The "Manhattan Madam" who boasted of providing prostitutes to New York's rich and famous, including Gov. Eliot Spitzer, says someone in special counsel Robert Mueller's office called her attorney Thursday to ask her to speak to investigators.

Kristin Davis, 41, said the Mueller representative asked if she would accept a subpoena or if the FBI would need to serve it to her, NBC News reported.

She said her lawyer called the representative back Friday to say she would accept it.

They’re meant to keep everyone safe, but new bike lanes are causing a bit of confusion in West Hartford.

The town resurfaced the road and added the bike lanes just within the past few months. But some of the symbols used are not familiar to everyone.

West Hartford resident Laurie Kelliher tries to get out and ride her bike at least three times a week. She loves the new bike lanes on Boulevard.

“They’re wonderful. I feel so much safer,” said Laurie Kelliher. “There’s no question. Especially along here because they just did the road again. It’s so smooth.”

For some, the symbols are a little confusing.

“When they first put that in I had no idea what that was for,” said Nith Mony from West Hartford. “Like no idea.”

On one side of Boulevard, the bike lane is clearly marked to the side of the road. On the other side of the street, the symbol is inside the roadway and looks completely different.

“If it has a solid white line and then the bicyclist logo is to the right of that white line between the curb, we’re encouraging bicyclists to actually use that lane,” said Capt. Mike Perruccio of the West Hartford Police. “If it’s a picture of a bicycle just on the road, then it’s to remind people that there’s going to be bicyclists there.”

The bike lanes also do not affect parking.

“If it is a legal parking space and there are no “no parking” signs then people have the right to park their cars on the side of the road. It’s incumbent upon the bicyclist to navigate safely around that car,” Perruccio said.

The Meriden police officer exposed to an illegal substance while responding to a call has been treated and released from the hospital, according to the chief’s office.

But what happened Thursday is a reminder of the dangers first responders face if they encounter these potentially deadly drugs.

“This officer, from all we can understand, merely picked up a packet of drugs,” Sgt. Chris Fry of Meriden Police told NBC Connecticut Thursday. “That’s all it took to send him into a state of near death.”

The response of Hunter’s Ambulance saved the life of the officer exposed to the substance while treating a woman who apparently overdosed, Fry said.

Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New England Brian Boyle told NBC Connecticut by phone that a state lab is testing the substance to confirm if it contained the synthetic opioid, fentanyl.

“Throughout the Northeast just because heroin is a drug of choice here and with the emergence of the fentanyl there have been incidents in some departments that have come across on raids and arrest situations that officers have been lightheaded or have become sick in exposure,” Boyle said.

The DEA sends out videos to police departments with guidelines how to process an overdose scene, Boyle said.

“It could be in the air,” Boyle added, “it could be just on the ground, it could be on the person’s body that you’re touching if you’re trying to revive the person, you could easily contact it with your skin.”

Wearing gloves is a must, Boyle added.

In Connecticut, more than 30 local police departments, including Meriden, have an officer assigned to the DEA Task Forces in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport.

Boyle issued a warning for police and the public.

“Any citizen could be walking by on the street and see someone overdose or any family members, you need to be cautious,” he said, “you don’t know what you’re putting in your system, it’s kind of like a game of Russian roulette you’re playing with your body.”

The woman the Meriden police officer was treating is expected to make a full recovery.

Boyle said as far as he knows no law enforcement officer in the Northeast has died from exposure to an opioid like heroin or fentanyl.

More than 275,000 people have registered to vote in Connecticut since 2016.

While political trends have certainly contributed to the steep increase in registrations, it’s become easier to register to vote in Connecticut during that period of time.

The state started registering and changing registrations at the Department of Motor Vehicles and that has led to a steady stream of sign-ups.

"Using the DMV as an example they instituted about three election cycles ago. We get a lot of voter registrations,” said Jim Stevenson, the Democratic registrar of voters in Manchester. “People have the opportunity, it's easy, it's just a few clicks away when they're doing that transaction at DMV."

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill estimated that more than half of all new registrations came through motor vehicle transactions, one way or another.

She said she hopes the increased number of registered voters in a non-presidential year also leads to a significantly higher turnout in the primary on August 14.

"I would be very happy about that because that's all about voter engagement,” Merrill said. “People, for the first time in a long time really want to be involved and whatever side they're on, they're interested and they're listening carefully."

Democrats already outnumber Republicans by a two to one margin and the trend continued with the new registrations. Democrats registered more than 81,000 new voters while Republicans registered more than 43,000.

The Greater New Haven Transit District is likely no longer providing a service to take the elderly in West Haven to and from doctors’ appointments and the senior center.

Executive Director Kimberly Dunham said the city hasn’t opted to continue the $177,282 contract that expired June 30 of this year. The transit company received a transit voucher through July 20 but no contract has been renewed, so it also became the last day of service.

About 50 residents are impacted, Dunham said.

Under the most recent contract, the service would take seniors to the doctor, which would cost $1 each way, and to the senior center free of charge, according to Dunham.

“We’re concerned because this was potentially a loss of a vital transportation service that improves the quality of life of seniors in the area and their ability to get out,” Dunham said.

But she added that other Greater New Haven Transit District Services are available, provide the same services and cover several of those customers. One is for those who qualify under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The other is a regional rides program that fills up quickly. Both come with a higher price tag of $3.50 per ride or a prepaid ticket from a ticket book costs $2.80, Dunham said.

She said her team has been talking to residents about these options along with outside transportation service option.

West Haven Mayor Nancy Rossi said the city is in a major deficit and under the watch of the Municipal Accountability Review Board (MARB). One stipulation is that contracts need to go out for bid.

Since the Greater New Haven Transit District gets federal funding, it is excluded from the bidding process, Rossi added.

“We’re in a deficit and it’s a sad situation. It isn’t fun,” Rossi said. “That’s why we had to do furlough days, that’s why we had to cancel the Savin Rock Festival, that’s why we had to collect for the fireworks and the list goes on and on and on.” 

She understands costs are going up, too. Right now Dattco is stepping in so senior bus service to medical appointments is uninterrupted starting Monday.

In a statement from the mayor, for this coming week, the city was able to waive the $2-per-rider-fee for next week’s trips.

Cliff Gibson, a spokesperson for Dattco, said there’s no contract currently, but the company is helping out for the time being.

Rossi said the city is working on a long-term contract for the future.

Just in the U.S. this year, there have been dozens of hot car deaths. Experts say whether you have kids or not, there's something we can all do to help keep them safe.

When the Moore family goes grocery shopping, no one get left behind. Two-year-old Eva and 6-year-old Allina are right by their parents' sides. Their mom, Tiana Moore, knows how hot a car can get.

"I've sat in the car for a few minutes waiting for my husband, and I'm sweating," said Moore.

At 6 p.m. on Friday an NBC Connecticut crew parked their own car and let the sun do the rest. At the time, it was 80 degrees outside, but in twenty minutes, the inside of the vehicle shot up to 100 degrees.

"Children's bodies heat up three to five times faster than an adult's, and if it gets to about 104 degrees, their internal body temperature, that's when they suffer heat stroke and essentially their body starts to shut down," said Associate Director of the Injury Prevention Center at Connecticut Children's Medical Center Dr. Kevin Borrup.

Borrup says so far this year there have been 27 confirmed hot car deaths in the U.S. Last year there were 43. In those cases, Borrup says 55 percent of the time parents unintentionally left their kid in the car. Twenty-eight percent of the time the child climbed into an unlocked vehicle. Fifteen percent of the time parents knowingly left their kids in a vehicle.

Experts say you should never leave your kids in the car and that it's key to look before you lock. They also recommend that you lock your vehicles when they're not in use.

"Children are attracted to cars, so if you have a car in your driveway, lock it," said Borrup. "When young children get inside a vehicle, they often can't find their way out of it."

Borrup says parents can also teach their kids to honk the horn if they get trapped in a car so that they can attract attention and get help. He adds that everyone can help play a role in keeping kids safe.

"If you're in a parking lot or on your street or you can see your neighbor's driveway, look in cars to see: is there a car seat there? Is there a child sitting in the car? And if you find a child in the car call 911, see if they're in distress or unresponsive, and do something if they are," said Borrup.

Some cars have reminders now to check the backseat, but not all do. Experts say you can leave your wallet or phone in the back seat as a reminder.

One person is dead after a motorcycle crash on the Sherman Parkway in New Haven Friday night.

Police said the male victim crashed his motorcycle in the area of 585 Sherman Parkway around 9:15 p.m. He was rushed to Yale-New Haven Hospital where he died of his injuries. He has not been identified.

The accident reconstruction team is investigating. Police said it appears to be a one-vehicle crash.

A major railroad connecting Connecticut to New York may not be upgrading fast enough to meet new safety standards.

The federal agency tasked with overseeing railroads is concerned that Metro-North may not meet their year’s end deadline for installing positive train control, a potentially life-saving safety technology.

• See the original warning letter and Metro-North's response below.

That’s disappointing to Renee Soderberg of Wethersfield, who frequently rides Metro-North.

“You know we say you have to have something done by a deadline but we wait until the 10th hour,” she said.

Positive train control, known as PTC, is a technology that can automatically slow or stop trains, potentially preventing collisions and derailments like one involving a speeding Metro-North train that killed four people in 2013.

PTC has been available for years but many railroads have been slow to adopt the technology.

National Transportation Safety Board chairman Robert Sumwalt heads the agency that investigates these kinds of crashes, and has recommended railroads have this technology for years.

“Any delay in implementing positive train control from a safety perspective, is unacceptable,“ said Sumwalt.

The Federal Railroad Administration, or FRA, is the agency overseeing the implementation of this life saving technology on trains across the country.

In late April, it sent Metro-North officials an “at-risk” letter sharing its “…concerns regarding Metro North’s progress towards fully implementing a PTC system.”

The railroad has until December 31 of this year to have PTC installed, or at least meet milestones necessary to apply for a two-year extension.

Metro-North’s most recent quarterly PTC report shows it making progress, and did not prompt an additional warning letter.

But an FRA spokesman told NBC Connecticut Investigates that Metro-North is “still at-risk” unless it continues to make progress installing the safety systems.

Data on the FRA’s website shows that while Metro-North did not get the most recent warning letter, it just missed the threshold for another at risk alert. The dozen railroads that got warning letters had 85 percent or less of their PTC hardware installed. Metro-North had 86 percent complete.

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Leaders from Metro-North declined an on-camera interview. A spokesman said the railroad is further along with PTC than the FRA believes, because Metro-North uses a different method to chart its progress.

The spokesman added that the railroad will have its PTC pilot route in operation by December and that it’s nearing a goal of having PTC installed on a majority of its other tracks and locomotives by year’s end, over and above what the feds require to qualify for an extension.

That’s a lofty goal though, based on what Metro-North Railroad president Catherine Rinaldi said at a June meeting.

During the meeting, Rinaldi said, “To the extent that we are still looking to try to place all lines in PTC operations by the end of the year, just given where we are at now, in terms of some of the software issues, that remains significantly at risk.”

The state’s newest passenger railroad, the Hartford Line, says all of its trains should be using PTC soon.

“Our new locomotives that we’ve taken delivery of have the latest hardware and software that will enable them for PTC at the end of the year,” said Rich Andrewski, the chief of public transportation for Connecticut Department of Transportation.

Most of the track the Hartford Line uses is owned by Amtrak, which said it expects PTC to be installed and operating on all the tracks it controls by year’s end.

The FRA said Amtrak has had an earlier version of PTC running on its Northeast Corridor route since 2004.

The agency said Amtrak has made significant progress installing the newer version of PTC on its Northeast Corridor route, but across its whole network it “still has work to do” to have it in place by year’s end.

Amtrak did not provide an on-camera interview, but through a spokesperson, said it will decide on a case by case basis on if it will use its locomotives on tracks that aren’t PTC ready, and if it will allow railroads that aren’t PTC ready to use its tracks.

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A mother and her three children have been reported missing in Meriden on Saturday.

According to police, Silver Alerts have been issued for 1-year-old Marianna Pagan and 10-year-old Felicia Pagan. Their brother and their mother have also been reported missing, but officers have not officially filed Silver Alerts for them yet. Police have not released the name of the boy or the children's mother.

The mother and her children were reported missing by the woman's husband when he could not find them in the house, officers said.

Marianna is described as being two feet tall, weighing 20 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Felicia is described as standing 4'4" and weighing 75 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

There is no description available for their brother or their mother.

Photos were not provided by police.

Anyone with any information is urged to contact Meriden Police at (203) 238-1911.

A body has been found in a lake in Bridgewater on Saturday morning.

Police say they were called to the boat launch at Lake Lillinoah around 6:44 a.m.

When officers arrived, they found a body in the water. At this time, police do not believe there is any criminal aspect involved.

Officers have not released the person's identity.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is expected to determine the cause and manner of death.

A house in Torrington is damaged after a fire ripped through it on Saturday morning.

Firefighters say they received an automated alarm about a fire at 500 Ledge Drive around 8:11 a.m.

When they arrived, they found heavy fire on all three floors of house. Firefighters were forced to fight the fire from the outside of the home because there was structural damage, fire officials said.

Firefighters from Harwinton, Winsted, Torringford and Drakeville provided mutual aid.

The Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the cause of the fire.

President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that he "did nothing wrong" after reports surfaced that Michael Cohen, his former personal attorney, secretly recorded him shortly before the 2016 presidential election talking about buying the rights to the story of a former Playboy model who alleges she had an affair with Trump, NBC News reported.

In his first public comments since a series of explosive reports in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Friday, Trump said it was "inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client — totally unheard of & perhaps illegal."

The recording was seized in April when the FBI raided Cohen's office and hotel rooms in Manhattan, The Times reported, citing lawyers and others familiar with the recording. 

Laws on taping private conversations differ from state to state, and it is not clear where Cohen recorded Trump. New York state, for example, has a "one-party consent" law, which makes it a crime to record an in-person or telephone conversation unless one party participating in the conversation consents.

Hartford Police have arrested a man after they say he was found with a stolen gun in a parking lot early Saturday morning.

Officers responded to 107 Vine Street shortly before 3:00 a.m. after getting a report that someone named "Shawn" was in the rear parking lot and had brandished a gun.

When police arrived, they say they saw a group of men standing around a car. As officers approached, one of the men, later identified as 27-year-old Shawn Robinson Jr., of East Hartford, walked to the back of the car and appeared to drop something on the ground, according to police.

Once the men were detained for an investigation, police say they found a green and black Ruger SR9 with a magazine in it on the ground. Officers searched Robinson and found another live nine millimeter round in his pocket, police said.

When dispatchers checked on the gun's serial numbers, officers learned the gun had been stolen. Robinson was also found to be on parole.

Robinson is facing charges including criminal possession of a pistol, possession of a high capacity magazine, theft of a firearm, criminal trespass and carrying a pistol without a permit.

Interstate 95 in East Lyme has reopened after debris was spilled on the highway and closed it for hours on Saturday.

I-95 north between exits 73 and 74 was closed after a dump truck lost a load of sand on the highway. 

The Department of Transportation was called to clean up the spill.

The highway was closed for about two hours so workers could clean, but has since reopened.

“It’s my roots. I love this town.”

On Saturday, Old Saybrook native and former NBA all-star Vin Baker returned home to help those battling drug and alcohol addiction. It’s a problem Baker has dealt with personally.

“Everything I worked so hard for was ravaged by alcoholism and addiction,” said Baker.

He shared his story of bouncing back in the hopes of inspiring others. Baker hosted his first ever road race to raise money and awareness about substance abuse. Before the race had even begun, $120,000 was raised for the Vin Baker Foundation’s Addiction Ends Here 5K.

The Vin Baker Foundation aims to open sober housing in Connecticut. Baker said beyond the money, he wants to inspire hope.

“No matter how you’ve fallen. No matter where you are in addiction, you can overcome it. If I can overcome it, I want to provide hope that everyone can overcome it,” Baker said.

“Addiction is just taking over our country and it’s just so sad,” said Karen Murray, one of the participants.

Pictures of the lives lost to drug addiction were lined up near the start and finish line to represent the crisis in Connecticut.

“Three people are dying a day in Connecticut from the opioid epidemic,” said Andy Buccaro, the director of Project Courage, which partnered with the Vin Baker Foundation.

Two-hundred-fifty runners laced up to save lives.

“It’s a great donation to give and it gives a lot of awareness to the problems that are in the state,” said Laura Zadrick, Bristol.

Some say they were inspired by Baker’s story.

“He stepped up to the plate and he did what he had to do to get through his addiction and coming out the other end and where he is today with everything he’s done, he’s giving back,” said Ron Stewart, Guilford.

After a career cut short by addiction, Baker hopes to turn the course of others’ substance abuse, by adding his face to the fight.

“Things that overcame me and took so much away from me I don’t want to see it happen to other people,” said Baker.

A good Samaritan and the Coast Guard rescued four people from a capsized boat near Niantic Bay on Saturday.

Watch standers at Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center say they received a call around 10:53 a.m. that a 21-foot boat was taking on water with four people aboard.

The watch standers issued an urgent marine information broadcast and diverted two response boats to help assist the boat.

Within five minutes, a good Samaritan who heard the urgent marine information broadcast arrived on scene. The good Samaritan took the four people aboard their boat, Coast Guard officials said. Police arrived shortly afterwards.

According to the Coast Guard, all four people were wearing life jackets and were safely transferred to the Niantic Boat Ramp with no injuries.

The capsized boat has been marked as a navigational hazard. The owner is working with commercial salvage to remove it, officials said.

A police pursuit ended in the Silver Lake area at a Trader Joe's with shots fired and a suspect inside on Saturday afternoon.

When Newschopper4 Bravo arrived over the scene at approximately 3:30 p.m. local time, the pursuit vehicle was visible, crashed into a pole.

"(The suspect) jumped out of the car, and it looked like he shot some rounds off when he got out of the car," Dan Zito, who said he was only feet away from the crash, said. "And (the police) returned some fire at him, but he ran straight in [to the Trader Joe’s]."

Moments later, LAPD approached under heavy caution and rescued one person that was left behind in the pursuit vehicle. Police later confirmed that the person was 20 years old and was taken to a nearby hospital. LAPD did not confirm her injuries, but initial reports stated that the woman in the vehicle had suffered a gunshot wound.

Newschopper4 was able to view the LAPD tactically working to rescue employees and customers trapped inside. Both customers and workers could be seen running from the store to safety and jumping out of store windows and escaping via a ladder placed at a window.

At least one customer was taken out of the store with injuries and appeared to require immediate medical attention.

Police had surrounded the Trader Joe's and were still working to rescue people trapped inside and take control of the store as of approximately 4:15 p.m.

"I’ve never seen so many police in my life," Derek Anthony, who has lived in the neighborhood for 15 years, said.

Anthony said he saw the end of the pursuit, "The car had heavy damage, had flat tires and (the suspect) was still careening around the corner with all the police behind him, and he was shooting his gun as he came around the corner."

After the barricade situation had been established and ongoing, a young male hostage was able to walk out of the front door with arms raised and taken to safety. Police were said to be in contact with the suspect and negotiating an end to the barricade.

As of 5:15 p.m., the barricade was still ongoing with SWAT vehicles in position and a location to perform emergency triage, if necessary.

The LAPD confirmed that the suspect is a male adult, and the police pursuit stemmed from a shooting that occured at 1:30 p.m. on the 1600 block of East 32nd Street in Los Angeles. The victims at that shooting were an elderly woman anda woman in her 20s.

The suspect fled the scene of the shooting in a 2015 Toyota Camry, per LAPD, and this vehicle was spotted in Hollywood. That is where the pursuit began, before concluding in front of the Trader Joe's in Silver Lake.

This is a developing situation. Check back for updates.