KERWIN BARRY DUNCAN Police said a Blacksburg man was arrested after becoming involved in a standoff with them Sunday night.

Kerwin Barry Duncan, 47, of 109 S. York St., Blacksburg, is charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, public disorderly conduct, and felon in possession of a firearm. He remains at the Cherokee County Detention Center in lieu of $20,000 bond.

Duncan’s wife, Michelle Duncan, called police at 10:41 p.m. Sunday because Duncan became irate after her daughter spilled an alcoholic drink belonging to him, a report at the Blacksburg Police Department states. She told police Duncan left the house and returned with a shotgun. After kicking and breaking a fish tank, Duncan left the home with the shotgun and went into a garage behind the residence, the report states.

She told police that Duncan told her, “He would not be coming out alive if the police came.”

Three Blacksburg police officers, Jonathan Gash, Peter McBride and Paul Wilkins, took up a position alongside the residence where they could see Duncan and began talking with him. As backup officers from Blacksburg and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office arrived, the area was secured and police were able to convince Duncan to come out of the garage.

Duncan told police he had no intentions of hurting himself, officers or others but had gone into the garage to cool off. He told police he had a couple of alcoholic drinks before the incident, authorities said.

Police said they found a sawed-off Stevens shotgun and a Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver, both of which were loaded, inside the garage.