A Westerville, OH, woman involved in a standoff with an area SWAT team called the newsroom of WSYX to plead her case.
The Columbus, OH, ABC station said Katelyn Allen spoke to senior producer Mark Schultz on the phone for about ten minutes around 8:00 p.m.
During the station’s report on its 11:00 p.m. show, Schultz can be heard telling Allen, “I don’t think we’re going to be able to do anything to help you right now. I think you’re just going to have to go with the police now. I mean its just going to get worse if you stay in there holed up, you know?”
Allen told the station her boyfriend bought an XBox gaming system with her credit card. When she confronted him about it, he called police and told them he was being robbed at gunpoint. Allen said she was inside the home with her parents and her best friend.
During her live shot at 11:00 p.m., reporter Tara Morgan told viewers Allen texted her right before she was flushed out of her parent’s home with tear gas and sent pictures of police outside the home.
The standoff ended just before 10:00 p.m. with three of the people inside the home charged with aggravated robbery.