A police standoff in a west Homewood neighborhood on Monday ended just under an hour after it started.

Homewood police were dispatched at 11:49 a.m. Monday to perform a welfare check on a man at his home on Edgecrest Drive, off Oxmoor Road.

Sgt. John Carr said once officers arrived, they heard multiple shots fired from within the home.

Officers made entry but retreated when more shots were fired.

A perimeter was set up and Homewood’s SWAT team arrived on the scene. The man’s wife and parents were standing with police a distance away from the house.

Police and at least one family member of the man spoke with him over a loudspeaker, asking him to surrender. He was alone inside the house.

At about 12:45 p.m., Carr said, the man surrendered peacefully.

After he left the house, police found his dog dead inside.

He is being taken to a hospital for evaluation.