Del Valle News

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Just a few months in Austin, and it's the harsh reality Laura Eldridge has come to know.

After a 13-hour standoff in Del Valle between the Travis County SWAT team and a man barricaded inside his home on Monday, authorities we forced to call off their operation because they were unable to get a search warrant to go into the home.

Travis County sheriff's deputies are maintaining increased presence in a Del Valle neighborhood where a SWAT standoff with a resident there lasted nearly 14 hours Monday, an official said.

SWAT personnel with the Travis County Sheriff's Office are trying to make contact with a man who barricaded himself in a home this morning following reports of shots fired in Del Valle, a sheriff's official said.