Three excruciating hours, that's how long a standoff lasted between local police and a gunman.
Officers at the scene say it was the most intense scene they've ever experienced deciding whether to wait or pull the trigger.
It started around 9:00am Friday at a home in Lapeer County's Imlay City.
A woman calls police saying her husband is upset and has a gun.
Two city officers arrive and secure the scene.
They call the Emergency Response Team and eventually state police take control of the situation.
John Stano, Imlay City police chief says the worst part of the situation was,"The fear of the unknown."
That fear ran long and deep when the 43-year-old man walked off his porch with a handgun under his chin and starts heading walking east.
Officers don't know if he's going to pull the trigger on himself or point the gun at them.
"There are several things that run through your mind, you have the safety of the surrounding area, you want to make sure the neighbors are safe, you want to make sure your officers are safe."
The man walked east past a few homes before stopping at the Church of the Nazarene's parking lot.
That's when police use a Taser to bring him down.
"In a perfect world, he would not have walked down the street, but at no time was anybody else in danger other than the police officers and the suspect himself," says Stano.
Next-door neighbors NBC25 spoke with say they didn't actually see the incident. They say they were asked to leave while police did their job.
No shots were fired.
Emergency crews took the man to the hospital for an evaluation ending a tense situation.
Police blocked off several homes during the ordeal.
Those closest to the scene say were asked to leave, while those farther away say there were asked to stay in their homes.
