Stand Off With Man Holding Women Hostage In Lincoln Co. Ends After More Than 13 Hours

LINCOLNTON, N.C. — Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and the Gaston County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team brought a hostage situation in northern Lincoln County to an end after more than 13 hours.

Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to assist Gaston County Probation and Patrol officers around 10:45 a.m. on February 15. When they went to the mobile home, the subject started to run from the back door when he saw the officers. He stopped and went back inside the residence and held the women hostage.

The incident involved a barricaded man in a mobile home on Woodland Hills Trail holding two adult women hostage. Shortly after midnight flash bang grenades were exploded and the SWAT team breached the door of the mobile home taking the suspect in custody.

The suspect is identified by authorities as 40-year-old Patrick Shomo.

Shomo was taken into custody and charged with trafficking, kidnapping, discharging a firearm into occupied property, and possession of a firearm by a felon, according to a news release.

Authorities say he is being held in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center under a $675,000 secured bond.

Police say after being freed, one woman being held captive by Shomo was arrested on unrelated charges.

Chelsey Avery, 31, of Iron Station was wanted on probation violation charges and placed in Gaston County Jail without bond.

No one was injured in the incident.