A 5-year-old girl was rescued and a Newark man was arrested Sunday after a three-hour standoff stemming from a violent domestic incident in Jersey City, authorities said.

Officers responded to a report of a domestic disturbance on Claremont Avenue and found a 39-year-old woman bleeding from the mouth and visibly distraught, according to city officials.

The woman told police that her ex-boyfriend had broken into her apartment through a window from the fire escape, struck her multiple times, prevented her from leaving and threatened to kill her.

During the altercation, the woman was locked out of the apartment while the suspect barricaded himself inside with the woman's 5-year-old daughter, police said.

Officials say that with the child heard crying inside and considered at imminent risk, members of the Jersey City Police Department’s Emergency Service Unit forced entry into the apartment and located the girl unharmed. She was immediately reunited with her mother.

As officers cleared the apartment, the suspect ran to the fire escape and broke into a vacant floor above, where he barricaded himself again, authorities said.

Crisis negotiators communicated with the suspect for nearly three hours before he surrendered. He was taken into custody and was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, police said.

“Our officers entered a volatile and unpredictable situation with a child at risk and resolved it without further injury. Their coordinated response secured a safe resolution in a highly volatile situation that carried significant risk of serious harm,” said Acting Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose.

The mother and child declined medical treatment at the scene.

The suspect, identified as Kevin Evans, 33, of Newark, was charged with home invasion burglary, robbery causing bodily injury, aggravated assault, criminal restraint, terroristic threats, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal mischief, failure to allow fingerprinting, defiant trespass and bail jumping.