OXFORD – A 27-year-old man was being held without bail following a Tuesday morning standoff with police at his home.

Kyle Edwards Hunt of 23 East Oxford Road was arrested after holing up in his residence for three-and-a-half hours. Police say Hunt fired three shots during the standoff and threatened suicide, but no one was injured.

Hunt was charged with burglary, gross sexual assault, violation of a protection-from-abuse order and violation of bail conditions of a March 11 arrest.

He was also charged with a civil infraction of causing a police standoff.

“This whole incident started in Paris,” said Sgt. Rickie Jack of the Oxford Police Department, “and it transpired into him coming home to Oxford.”

Chief David Verrier of the Paris Police Department said officer Nate Bowie responded to a complaint around 7:15 a.m. A 28-year-old woman said Hunt kicked in the door to her apartment and entered with a .357-Magnum Taurus handgun. The woman said Hunt took away her cell phone after she attempted to reach it and sexually assaulted her before leaving.

Verrier said Bowie and officer Alan Coffin of the Oxford Police Department responded to Hunt’s home, and Jack said Deputy Joshua Wyman of the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office also responded there.

Verrier said police made contact with Hunt before their arrival, but Hunt fired the handgun as they approached the residence. Oxford police Chief Jon Tibbetts said the shot was fired outside the house and “didn’t appear to be aimed at anything specific.”

“We’re not 100 percent sure if it was inside or outside,” Verrier said. “However, a shot was fired.”

Maine’s State Police Tactical Team was called in, and the standoff also brought responders from the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Norway, Paris and Oxford. An ambulance from Oxford Rescue stood by.

State Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland said at least a dozen troopers responded to the scene. He said Trooper Leonard Bolton was assigned the task of making calls to Hunt to try to persuade him to surrender.

Tibbetts said two more shots were fired inside the home during those negotiations. Roads around the house were closed, and Jack said people in three nearby houses were advised to stay in their homes. At 11:10 a.m., Hunt surrendered to the tactical team.

Tanya Stickney, who lives near Hunt and said she went to high school with him, expressed disbelief at the situation.

“He never seemed like the kid that would do that,” she said.

Verrier said Hunt was arrested by Bowie and taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway where he was evaluated before being taken to the Oxford County Jail in Paris.

Hunt was arrested March 11 by Norway police on charges of domestic terrorizing with a dangerous weapon, domestic assault, and domestic stalking in a case involving the same woman. He was released $1,000 bail three hours after being jailed.

At that time Hunt was arrested outside his Oxford home, police seized a loaded two-shot Derringer from his truck’s glove compartment.

According to the conditions set after that arrest, he was not to have contact with the woman; not to possess alcohol, illegal drugs, or dangerous weapons; and not to return to a store.

Verrier said the .357 handgun was seized from the home along with other items that he wouldn’t name. Jack said no other weapons were found in the house.