Several agencies are investigating a dispute late Thursday night in Independence that ended in the explosion of a home.

An Independence Police Department spokesperson said officers were dispatched around 11 p.m. Thursday on a report of a suicidal person inside of a home in the 2300 block of S. Arlington Avenue.

Officers on the scene learned there was a domestic disturbance between two brothers at the home. During the disturbance, one of the brothers fired shots toward the other.

Neither brother was injured as part of the initial disturbance.

However, the brother who fired shots then barricaded himself in the home, forcing police to call in additional SWAT resources.

As the situation developed, police started to smell natural gas coming from the home and called the gas company to shut

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