A 27-year-old Maryland man has been arrested and charged with numerous felonies after a barricade situation in Delmar on Monday during which he exchanged gunfire with police, according to Delaware State Police.
The Delmar Police Department responded to the 600 block of East Grove Street at about 9:15 a.m. for a “physical domestic-related incident” outside the residence, state police said. A neighbor helped a female victim to safety while William Tulowitzky went back into the home, where a 2-year-old child was.
When police asked Tulowitzky to come out of the home, he refused and made threats against anyone trying to enter, according to Delaware State Police. He began firing shots “towards the outside of the residence, where numerous officers were positioned,” police said, and a state trooper fired back. No one was injured due to the gunfire, according to police.
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Tulowitzky was barricaded inside the home, speaking by phone with the Delaware State Police Conflict Management Team, until about 1 p.m., police said. At that time, a special operations team entered the home and took him into custody without further incident, according to police.
The woman and child were taken to a hospital “as a precautionary measure,” police said. The child was unharmed, state police Cpl. Leonard DeMalto said at a press conference Monday.
Tulowitzky was charged with seven felony counts of aggravated menacing, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and “numerous domestic related charges,” police said. He was jailed at Sussex Correctional Institution on $330,000 cash bond.
