Man In Custody Following All-Night Standoff In South Gate
SOUTH GATE (CBSLA.com) — A man surrendered Friday morning after an all-night standoff with police in South Gate.
Officers responded to the 2700 block of Iowa Avenue in South Gate at about 8:40 p.m. on three separate reports of "shots fired," South Gate police Capt. Darren Arakawa said. One caller reported hearing an argument between an unrelated man and a woman and said it may have been a dispute between neighbors.
South Gate's SWAT team and crisis negotiators spent the night trying to get the man, who had gone inside a home, to surrender peacefully.
Twelve homes were evacuated during the standoff. At 6:44 a.m., Los Angeles Unified School District police tweeted that students at nearby Stanford Elementary School would be relocated to Southeast High School because of the standoff, but the relocation did not go forward as planned because the suspect was taken into custody at 7:05 a.m.
No injuries were reported, Arakawa said.
