8-hour standoff in Osage County community ends early Wednesday morning with arrest

An eight-hour standoff in the Osage County town of Vassar ended with no injuries, according to a release from the Osage County Sheriff’s Office.

Shortly after 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, the sheriff’s office responded to a distraught man in a home in the 2600 block of Main Street, who was armed with several weapons.

After a family member in the home was able to leave safely, the man fired several shots randomly, police said.

The situation was resolved shortly after midnight when the 31-year-old man left the house and was arrested on a charge of criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling.