Crime & Safety

Armed Woman Surrenders After Marathon Standoff

A standoff ended peacefully after an armed woman in her 70s held deputies at bay for 22 hours.

A marathon standoff between sheriff’s deputies and an armed woman in her 70s at a Calabasas-area mobile home park ended peacefully early today, authorities said.

The standoff ended around 3:30 a.m., 22 hours after it began, said Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Trina Schrader. She added that the suspect has been hospitalized for unspecified medical treatment.

No information was immediately released on how the suspect was persuaded to surrender.

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The barricade situation began in the 4200 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard Boulevard in unincorporated Topanga just north of Calabasas about 5:35 a.m. Thursday, when sheriff’s deputies responding to a “medical assistance” call saw a woman of about 70 with a gun. She fled before they could contact her, according to the sheriff’s department.

No shots were fired then, but the unidentified woman later fired two rounds at a robot deployed by the sheriff’s department, a sheriff’s official said. Law enforcement personnel set up a containment area in the mobile home park and continued trying to persuade the woman, who was believed to be holed up in the backyard of one of the homes, to surrender.

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