Police from multiple agencies responded to a police standoff in Surfside Beach Sunday afternoon, lasting three hours.
According to Surfside Beach Police Chief Kenneth Hofmann, officers were called to a home in the 700 block of Surfside Drive just before 2 p.m. for a report of a home invasion. The homeowner told police there was an armed man inside the home. However that turned out to not be the case.
Chief Hofmann told us when officers entered the home, the homeowner was the only individual inside the barricaded home, and was not armed.
The Chief identifed the homeowner as a Francis Mazingo.
No one was injured through out the ordeal. However Mazingo was taken out of the house on a stretcher and put him in an ambulance and taken to the hospital
Chief Hofmann said Mazingo suffered some sort of medical emergency.
No criminal charges will be filed in this matter.
In a statment Chief Hofmann said “while we regret that this matter required the activation of many law enforcement and emergency medical resources, we are thankful that it was resolved as a medical issue and that no member of the public or emergency responders were injured.”
Horry County Police assisted with this incident.
