TOMBALL, Texas (AP) -- The father of a patient at a southeast Texas hospital who became distraught over his son's condition surrendered without incident after about a four-hour standoff Saturday night in his son's hospital room, authorities said.<br />
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Officials feared the man, whose name was not immediately disclosed, might be armed but officers did not find a weapon when he surrendered shortly before 11 p.m. CST, Harris County Sheriff's Lt. Joe Ambriz said.<br />
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No one was injured as the man holed up in a second-floor room in the critical care unit of Tomball Regional Medical Center, about 30 miles northwest of Houston. He surrendered without incident after more than a dozen SWAT officers reported to the hospital along with a sheriff's department negotiating team.<br />
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"The focus was to make sure everyone on that floor was safe and moved out of potential harm's way and we take the subject into custody," Ambriz said.<br />
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He said the man became "very upset," about the condition of his hospitalized adult son and a disturbance broke out that the hospital officials and Tomball police were unable to control. They requested help from the sheriff's department. No further details about the indent were released.<br />
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Ambriz said it was not immediately certain what charges the man in custody would be facing.<br />
