Crime & Safety
Update: SWAT Standoff Suspect Surrenders
The man had been barricaded in a house on Winnetka Avenue since about 5 a.m.
Updated at 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 4 p.m. 4:25 p.m.:
A man who had been barricaded in a house on Winnetka Avenue since about 5 a.m. has surrendered and has been booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Officers were sent to the 6700 block of Winnetka Avenue, just east of Los Angeles Pierce College and about a half block south of Vanowen Street, shortly before 5 a.m. when a woman reported that someone was trying to break into her residence, said Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Bruce Borihanh.
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The woman was interviewed by investigators, who determined that the incident may have involved a domestic dispute, Officer Borihanh said. Officers determined that the man was still inside the residence, and they summoned a SWAT team to the location, Borihanh said.
The man, who was not immediately identified, surrendered at about 3 p.m. and was to be booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on an officer and spousal battery, according to Officer Karen Rayner, who said the suspect did not fire the weapon but pointed it at an officer. She said the exact relationship between the suspect and the woman who summoned police had not been sorted out.
