UPDATE: Suspect In Walmart Black Friday Shooting Surrenders To Police

A tense standoff ended peacefully at around 11 a.m. Thursday when Detwone Watson, the suspected gunman in the , surrendered to police who had surrounded his mother’s home in East Oakland.

San Leandro police believe Watson, 29, fired the shot that wounded Christopher Murillo of San Lorenzo in an attempted robbery that occurred at about 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 25 in the parking lot of

In a case that garnered international attention for its association with the popular shopping day, San Leandro police last month obtained a warrant for Watson's arrest.

Another suspect, , was arrested at the scene of the crime. Police continue to seek two other unidentified suspects.

At a press conference Thursday morning, Oakland Police Department spokeswoman Johnna Watson said the standoff began when San Leandro police received a tip that Watson was in a house on the 2700 block of 106^th Avenue in Oakland.

Police said the tip came at 3:30 a.m. Investigators from San Leandro contacted  Oakland police, who helped cordon off the long block between MacArthur Boulevard and Foothill Boulevard.

Approximately twenty officers from the two departments surrounded the house. The residents -- there were five people inside in addition to the suspect -- were ordered to come out into the street.

All of the occupants complied with the exception of Watson who was last seen by the residents trying to hide in the attic.

A SWAT team and hostage negotiators from San Leandro took charge of the seige.

Shortly before 11:00 a.m., Watson emerged from the house, walking backwards, hands in the air, into the arms of San Leandro officers. As media and onlookers watched from  several hundred feet away on Foothill Boulevard, Watson was cuffed, put into a police car and driven away toward MacArthur Boulevard.

Two of Watson’s relatives, his sister, Terri Larkin, and nephew, Kendall Small, were among the onlookers who cheered when he surrendered without a shot having been fired.

Both said they had been in the house when police arrived around 6 a.m. and ordered them out.

“Oh, I’m just so happy he just walked out,” said Larkin amidst a gaggle of camera crews.

Larkin said Watson was a good man who could not have committed the crimes of which he stands accused, but she was grateful at least that he would live to stand trial and clear himself.

“Innocent until proven guilty,” she said, adding her thanks for the peaceful arrest.

“I do applaud San Leandro PD. They got him out of there safe,” Larkin said. “Oakland PD would have gone in there guns blazing.”

Kendall Small said he had not known that his uncle, the suspect, was in the house until he was woken up at about 6 a.m. after a call by police.

“They knew everything,” Small said. “They told us to get up and come out.”

Small said that his sister, who he did not name, his infant goddaughter and Watson’s mother, Tamica, were also in the house. He did not give Tamica’s last name.

He said he had been handcuffed for an hour in the back of a police car.

“I’m still shook up,” he said.

It was not clear Thursday who tipped police off and how long Watson may have been at his mother’s house. Larkin and Small both said they did not know Watson was in the house until the police got them up and told them to get out.

San Leandro Police Department spokesman Sgt. Ted Henderson said police were told that Watson wasn't armed Thursday. He said Watson lives elsewhere in Oakland and that officers continue to look for the gun they think he used to shoot Murillo.

At a press conference last month, Henderson said police believe that on the morning of the Black Friday shooting, Watson and Phillips were passengers in a two-door burgundy Buick Riviera that pulled up in the busy parking lot behind the three victims, all cousins from San Lorenzo in their early 20s.

Henderson said the three victims, Christopher, Rafael and Javier Murillo, had been standing by their car in the Walmart parking lot. They had gone into the store, which opened at midnight, looking for a video game, but left the store empty handed when they could not find it, he said.

Police believe Watson brandished a gun as he approached Christopher Murillo, and that Phillips approached Rafael Murillo, who was wearing a gold necklace, and attempted to steal it.

According to Henderson a fight ensued between Phillips and Rafael Murillo, and Javier Murillo allegedly tried to help his cousin by holding down Phillips. A third suspect got out of the Buick and attempted to help Phillips. Police said Watson then shot Christopher Murillo, striking him in the neck.

The third suspect fled on foot, and the shooter got back in the Buick and left with the driver, leaving Phillips with the victims, who detained him until police arrived.

Henderson said Watson is being held on a warrant charging him with attempted murder, two counts of attempted robbery and one count of robbery. Watson will likely be arraigned on Monday, Henderson said.

— Bay City News Contributed to this report.