01:44 PM PDT on Sunday, September 4, 2005

Associated Press

SEATTLE - Officers arrested a man and woman on Sunday following a standoff with the woman who police said fired a shotgun out an apartment window while the two were struggling over the gun.

The 33-year-old Seattle woman was arrested and taken to the King County Jail for investigation of assault. The man was also booked on the same charge, Seattle police spokesman Rich Pruitt said.

Their identities were not released.

No one was injured.

The standoff began when neighbors in the city's Fremont area reported hearing a single gunshot around 6:30 a.m. Sunday.

Responding officers found "that a suspect had shot one round from a shotgun out a window," Pruitt said.

Residents of the building were evacuated. Two people were taken out of the apartment but a woman remained inside and "disappeared from officers' view," Pruitt said.

At that point, Seattle SWAT and a hostage negotiation team were called in to talk the woman out, he said.

Around 11 a.m., after the woman did not respond to attempts to contact her, the SWAT team was able to enter the apartment and she was arrested without further incident, Pruitt said.

"The two were in some type of disturbance and fight and actually fought over the shotgun," he said. "At one point she got a hold of it and took one shot out the window."

Officers had been called to the residence earlier in the morning and asked the group to turn down their stereo, Pruitt said. "They did comply and it was quite when officers left."