A 20-year-old Springfield man remained in the Clark County Jail on several charges accusing him of taking a pregnant woman hostage at gunpoint, discharging a handgun inside a house where an infant was present and holding police at bay Monday night before surrendering.

Ian Sparks-Arnold told a judge Tuesday morning that he will represent himself on charges of kidnapping, aggravated burglary with force, inducing panic and obstructing official business. Bond was set at $55,000.

Sparks-Arnold is accused of firing a .40-caliber handgun inside 12 S. Light St. and pointing it at two men on Monday night in an incident that began brewing in the late afternoon when Sparks-Arnold and John Brewer, a resident at the address, “got into an argument” after working on a vehicle for most of the day and then drinking.

According to Springfield police, Brewer’s pregnant girlfriend, 19-year-old Cara Earles, told them that Sparks-Arnold — whom she said she only knew by the nickname of “Sin” — assaulted her, fired a shot in the living room and pointed the gun at Brewer when he told Sparks-Arnold to leave the house because of the argument.

Brewer grabbed their infant daughter and fled the house, Earles told police. Sparks-Arnold then grabbed a third witness, a 17-year-old male, and pointed the gun at him. That witness managed to escape and joined Brewer, Earles and the child in running from the house.

Earles told police she returned to the house because she wasn’t sure Sparks-Arnold was still inside. Earles told police that she tried to flee a second time when she saw Sparks-Arnold, but he caught up with her on the front sidewalk and forced her back inside the house.

She said he slammed her against a wall in the living room and she fell to the floor, but was able to escape a third time when two unknown people distracted Sparks-Arnold when they came to the front door.

Police were called to the address on a report of a male with a handgun. The said they found Sparks-Arnold upstairs, and he became belligerent and cursed at officers when they tried to question him from the street.

Police evacuated the house — there was at least one other person left there, identified as the girlfriend of the 17-year-old — and set up a perimeter to remove bystanders to a safe distance, according to police.

One of the officers was able to engage Sparks-Arnold in a conversation, and he came to the front door to surrender to police.

Sparks-Arnold claimed that he lived at the address, police said. According to the police incident report, Earles and Brewer are listed as residents of the Light Street address.

Police searched the home and found the gun upstairs in a spare bedroom, as well as four spent shell casings.