Man found dead following police standoff in Hialeah

Police found a man dead inside a home in Hialeah following a standoff that lasted more than two hours.

Lazaro Morejon, 30, was inside the home with at least three other men and a woman when shots were fired around 5 p.m., police spokesman Carl Zogby said

Morejon then barricaded himself inside the house at 125 West 56th Street.

The men, who managed to escape the house when the shooting broke out, told police they did not know if the shots were directed at them, Zogby said.

Authorities said a woman living in the house was hurt, but not from a gunshot wound. She was taken by ambulance to Palmetto General Hospital.

SWAT team officers left the house around 7:20 p.m. as police continued to investigate the case.

Hialeah police blocked off neighborhood streets for several hours during the standoff while a SWAT crisis negotiation team tried to communicate with Morejon.

This story was originally published December 23, 2015 at 6:03 PM with the headline "Man found dead following police standoff in Hialeah."