Oceanside Stabbing Suspect In Custody After Standoff

OCEANSIDE, CA – A suspect was in custody Thursday morning following a roughly six-hour standoff in connection with a stabbing late Wednesday in Oceanside's Mira Costa neighborhood, police said.

Police were not immediately sure what led up to the stabbing, which happened around 10:30 p.m. near Vista Way and Snead Drive, just north of state Route 78 near the El Camino Country Club, Oceanside police Sgt. Michael Provence said.

10News reported that the suspect stabbed a man after the victim and another man confronted him while he was fighting with a woman, possibly his girlfriend.

The victim sustained serious injuries but was taken to a hospital and expected to survive, Provence said.

The suspect fled the scene, but detectives later developed information that he was likely somewhere in a nearby apartment complex, Provence said. A SWAT team responded and surrounded the apartment where it was believed the suspect was holed up.

Detectives obtained two search warrants for the complex and arrested the suspect around 5 a.m., though the circumstances of that arrest were not immediately clear. Police did not release the name of the man, who was expected to be arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

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