By Patrick Lohmann and Catie O'Toole
BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y.-- For 23 hours, police repeatedly tried to coax a suicidal armed man from a Baldwinsville home this weekend.
After many attempts, 50-year-old William Lamson finally emerged with his hands over his head at about 4 p.m. Sunday.
Lamson stepped over a broken railing -- damaged minutes earlier when a large armored vehicle rammed into the front of his house at 24 Charlotte St. -- and toward at least a dozen heavily armed officers.
One officer shouted: "Get your hands up mother%$#*@!."
Lamson kept his hands and head up as he walked across Charlotte Street, where officers ordered him to get onto his knees. He was immediately arrested as about six officers surrounded him.
That ended the lengthy standoff, which began around 5 p.m. Saturday after the man barricaded himself in the house.
Police on Saturday had tried to serve Lamson with a harassment warrant from a domestic dispute last week when Lamson allegedly threatened the officers, Baldwinsville Police Chief Michael Lefancheck said at a news conference after the standoff ended Sunday.
Lamson was armed as he made those threats and barricaded himself in the house on Saturday, the police chief said.
Police shut down West Genesee Street between Oswego and North streets. Services at the Baldwinsville First United Methodist Church, which sat in an area blocked by police tape, were canceled Sunday morning.
Officers tried to talk with Lamson, but he did not respond.
"Bill, this is the police," an officer said on a loud speaker at least a dozen times Sunday morning. "Come out of the front door with your hands up. Leave the dog inside."
A short time later, loud bangs could be heard as police threw tear gas canisters. The sound echoed across the Seneca River.
The Onondaga County Sheriff's Office SWAT team, state police and Syracuse police's Emergency Response Team were on scene.
Officers in heavy vests carried long guns and surrounded the home, while a robot on wheels sat outside.
A patrol vehicle with a long, pipe-like extension knocked out windows on the side of the house.
Neighbors watched and waited.
Shortly before 4 p.m., several officers stood behind and on top of a large dark green police vehicle.
Pop. Pop. Pop.
Officers shot tear gas canisters into the home. At least one window broke as law enforcement deployed the gas canisters inside the house.
Officers then lined up two-by-two behind the police vehicles and stormed in.
As police arrested Lamson, neighbors stepped out of their homes and applauded.
Lamson shouted "F$#@ you" to bystanders as he walked down the street.
"You're gonna have a lot of fun where you're going," one neighbor shouted.
Lamson asked whether his dog was OK, but he didn't get a response. Police later said the dog escaped the house at some point during the standoff and has not yet been found.
Police examined the damage to the front porch and to each of the upstairs windows, which had been shot out with tear gas canisters.
Police also picked up a rifle inside the home and placed it into a plastic bag.
Lamson, who was uninjured, has been charged with first-degree criminal contempt and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies; resisting arrest, a misdemeanor; and second-degree harassment, a violation.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Sunday night in Centralized Arraignment Court.
Police say they are continuing to investigate the standoff. Lamson will face additional charges for the standoff, though the district attorney's office will need to sign off on what they are, police said.
Lamson was well known to police because of other domestic violence incidents over the last several years, Lefancheck said.