Officers escape injury in five-hour standoff in Truro

By Michele Richinick, Globe Correspondent

The Cape View Motel in Truro was evacuated after shots were fired at two police officers during a five-hour standoff overnight, police said.

Officials said an apparently suicidal woman called State Police via cell phone at 9 p.m. Tuesday. She was barricaded inside a hotel room, police said.

When Truro Police Officers Nicholas Ambrosini and Scott Holway knocked on the woman's motel door, two shots were fired from inside the room. The officers escaped injury. They requested additional assistance from the Provincetown and Wellfleet police departments along with State Police.