An 87-year-old Liberty Township man is being evaluated at St. Elizabeth in Youngstown following an early morning incident that brought police to his Northgate Drive home for more than two-and-a-half hours Thursday morning.

Police were called out to the ranch-style home off Trumbull Avenue shortly after midnight after a woman called 911 to report that her husband was trying to break into her room, claiming that he had a shotgun.

A dispatcher spoke with the man's wife and daughter, who said that the man is hard of hearing and has Alzheimer's Disease.

As a rescue squad stood by, the man's wife managed to get out of the home, unharmed nearly two hours after the incident began.

Forty-five-minutes after that, the husband was brought out of the home and taken to the hospital for a mental evaluation.