38-year-old James Ricardo Lipscomb, shown here
at the Plano standoff two weeks ago,
has been barricaded inside an apartment at this
public housing complex since 7 Monday night.
Neighbors say Lipscomb returned to his
common-law wife's apartment and became angry
when he
discovered her boyfriend living with her.
That's when police were called.
He opened up the door, and the guy that got
Denise in there, he said close the door, just
like that.
Close the door.
And she said, please close the door, please
close it.
He closed the door and did it on his deal, and
he said, back up.
He's in a hostage situation.
Police backed off when Lipscomb started making threats.
He makes threats towards the officers as well
as his common law wife, that he's going to
do bodily harm to them.
They also don't want to put her in that
position, so they back off and he gets back
inside and
gets the door locked and barricades himself in.
Hostage negotiators say communication with
Lipscomb has been steady and positive except
for a period overnight when Lipscomb threw out
the telephone when he got tired.
Communication was re-established about 6:00
this morning.
We're working, I think, forward and that's what
we're, you know, the whole purpose of
it is to work through this situation and get it resolved.
Police say Lipscomb is armed with a knife and
continues to hold his 12 and 7-year-old
children and their mother against their will.
He's not a tenant. He's not on
the lease. The young lady that actually leases
that apartment just recently
moved in and he was not a part of the household.
Police say this situation
occurred spontaneously and was not prompted by
the incident in Plano,
which was instigated by Lipscomb's younger
brother, James Monroe Lipscomb.
This has really no connection to that. It's,
you know, and it could, there's a
potential that would just make the situation
tense and we don't want to do
that so because this has no bearing on the
Plano situation.