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SWAT Team Responds To Home Of Former NY Jets DB & Coach Corwin Brown

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The Detroit News

Last Updated: August 12. 2011 4:52PM

Report: SWAT team responds to incident at home of former U-M, Lions player Corwin Brown

Detroit News staff

According to a report, a SWAT team was sent to a home near South Bend, Ind. reportedly owned by former Michigan and Detroit Lions player Corwin Brown, responding to complaints of shots fired inside the home.

WSBT-TV in South Bend reported that a neighbor confirmed the home was owned by Brown and that several children and a woman made it out of the home safely after an initial call for a domestic dispute at around 1 p.m.

Brown played with the Lions in the 1999-2000 season, after three seasons with the Patriots (1993-96) and one with the Jets (97-98). Brown also was a co-defensive coordiantor with the Patriots from 2007-09 and coached defensive backs for the Jets in 2004-06.

Brown has a wife Melissa and three children — Corwin Jr., Tayla and Jaedan.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110812/SPORTS0201/108120426/Report--SWAT-team-responds-to-incident-at-home-of-former-U-M--Lions-player-Corwin-Brown#ixzz1Uqq1CJ57

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BREAKING NEWS: Police standoff at home of former Notre Dame coach

A WSBT and South Bend Tribune report

5:08 p.m. CDT, August 12, 2011

GRANGER, Ind. — A SWAT team has responded to the Northbrook Shores subdivision in Granger after shots were reportedly fired inside a home at 10135 Glynwater Court.

According toSt. Joseph County records, the home is owned by Corwin Brown, a former Notre Dame football defensive coach.

Police told the South Bend Tribune the situation started out as a domestic abuse call at 12:55 p.m.

A neighbor told WSBT she saw Brown's wife and children make it safely out of the home.

A WSBT reporter said he heard additional shots fired after his arrival. Police have told neighbors to stay inside their homes and away from windows.

St. Joseph County police said Indiana Michigan Power Co. has been brought in to shut off power to the house.

Police told The Tribune they have talked to the occupant, who they believe to be Corwin Brown, via phone over the past two hours. Officers said they are trying to get him back on the phone.

St. Joe County police officer confirmed he is the only one inside the house. Police have said over the bullhorn: "Please let us know that you are OK," and "Nobody here wants to hurt you."

The occupant has been seen walking around the house and he has been spotted opening and quickly closing window shades.

A neighbor said he saw Brown briefly come out of the house with a handgun. Police told him to put it down and he ran back inside.

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GRANGER, IND. — Former Notre Dame football defensive coordinator and NFL player Corwin Brown was taken from his home Friday night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a nearly seven-hour standoff, police said.

St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Commander Tim Corbett said Friday night he did not know whether Brown’s injuries were life-threatening.

Police say they heard gunshots inside the home shortly after they arrived about 1 p.m. in response to a reported domestic dispute. Brown’s wife and children exited the house sometime later and police say they began trying to talk him out using cellphones and a bullhorn.

Police said Brown, who was a tri-captain of the Michigan football team in 1992, asked to talk to several friends during the standoff. Shortly before it ended, someone could be heard saying through the bullhorn: “Be a Michigan man today. Step up to your obligation.”

Several seconds later the person said: “Please don’t let me down. Please!”

Moments later a fire truck and ambulance rushed to the front of the house. The ambulance left moments later.

Police would not identify the person who had been talking to Brown.

Police said Brown’s wife, Melissa, had a bruise on her head when she left the house earlier in the day. Their children were not hurt.

Police could be heard urging Brown, 41, throughout the day to give up or to give them a call. “We’d appreciate it if you’d let us know you’re OK,” one officer said through the bullhorn.

Sgt. Matt Blank, a St. Joseph County police spokesman, said Brown came out of the house several times during the standoff only to go back inside.

“Just calm down and put your hands in the air,” a police officer said when he came out about 4:45 p.m. Several moments later, Brown could be spotted inside in a window closing the blinds.

Blank said no shots were fired by police during the standoff.

Officers blocked off entrances to the subdivision about 10 miles northwest of the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, and blocked access to the Brown home from about three houses away. Police at one point provided an escort as a family left their home next door.

Brown was drafted in the fourth round of the 1993 NFL draft following eight years at the University of Michigan, where he was co-captain in all-Big Ten his senior year. Brown played eight seasons in the NFL as a defensive back with the Patriots, Jets and Detroit Lions, from 1993-2000.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Brown was an assistant with the New York Jets and at the University of Virginia.

He was Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator from 2007 to 2009. He was fired along with most of the rest of the staff when Charlie Weis was fired. He coached defensive backs with the New England Patriots last season but was not retaine

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