Five Barnstable schools on lockdown as SWAT teams surround Cape Cod house

Five Massachusetts schools are under a shelter-in-place order as a police stand-off  developed on Wednesday afternoon. 

Barnstable High School, Barnstable Intermediate School, Hyannis West Elementary School, Enoch Cobb Early Learning Center and Barnstable Community Innovation School are under the order, the public school board said. 

No threat is currently directed at any of the schools, officials said. 

A SWAT team armed with long guns were seen surrounding a property on St John Street in Hyannis on the Cape Cod peninsula, the Cape Cod Times reported. 

A SWAT team armed with long guns were seen surrounding a property on St John Street

Local police are currently engaged in a stand-off with a barricaded suspect in the Route 28 and Bearses Way area of Hyannis

Barnstable High School is one of five schools placed under a shelter-in-place order on Cape Cod 

Local police are currently engaged in a stand-off with a barricaded suspect in the Route 28 and Bearses Way area of Hyannis, according to local reports. 

Police were called to an address on St John Street at 7:41am for report of an individual holding a person at knifepoint.

The caller advised a police dispatcher that the occupants of the home were able to leave the residence but the suspect remained inside, NBC reported.

Barnstable police arrived on scene and contained the suspect inside the home before the Cape Cod Regional SWAT Team arrived shortly afterwards and took command of the incident.  

Negotiations with the suspect were ongoing as of 12:30 pm and a shelter-in-place remains in place for a one mile radius, Barnstable police said. 

'No one is permitted into our schools or to exit them, but school operations within the building will continue,' the district wrote in an email to the school community. 

The town's transportation and facilities office is also under the shelter-in-place order.