MONTREAL, July 31 (UPI) -- A 72-year-old man in a Montreal suburb was taken into custody Wednesday after an armed standoff that lasted for 20 hours, police said.
Constable Daniel Lacoursière of the Montreal Police Department said the man was hit with two rubber bullets but did not appear to be injured, The (Montreal) Gazette reported. He was transferred to a hospital.
Lacoursiere said a SWAT team moved in after a robot found the man was no longer armed.
"We take the least lethal method that we can," he said.
The standoff began Tuesday when the man allegedly threatened two Hydro-Quebec employees with a gun. Police said they had come to his house in Cote-St. Luc to change the meter.
Police said a number of firearms were registered to the address.
The identity of the man was not released. A neighbor said police referred to him as a former professor during attempts to reach him by loudspeaker and that a message from his daughter was played.
