Today I was dispatched to to the intersection of Main and Kilby streets in Woburn where an unidentified man climbed onto the roof of a four-story apartment building to avoid being served with a warrant for his arrest. I covered this standoff for several hours when I finally noticed something else happening. A pair of nuns with ash on their foreheads approach the police tape to pray for a moment. I managed to capture a few quick frames, but didn’t think much at the time. Later in the day, I found out the nearly seven hour standoff peacefully ended. Fortunately, the suicidal man climbed back into a window of the apartment building and surrendered to authorities. Here one of those frames from the afternoon…

02.22.12 — WOBURN, MA. — A pair of nuns pray while watching authorities attempt to talk a suicidal man off the roof of a four-story apartment building at the intersection of Main and Kilby streets in Woburn on Wednesday February 22, 2012.
And of course…the standoff…

02.22.12 — WOBURN, MA — A North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (NEMLEC) negotiator tries to talk a unidentified man off the roof of a four-story apartment building at the intersection of Main and Kilby streets in Woburn on Wednesday February 22, 2012.

02.22.12 — WOBURN, MA. — Members of the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (NEMLEC) travel up the ladder of a fire truck to help get a man off the roof of a four-story apartment building at the intersection of Main and Kilby streets in Woburn on February 22, 2012.