ARMED STANDOFF IN PALMDALE PROMPTS EVACUATION.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Residents were evacuated e·vac·u·ate v. e·vac·u·at·ed, e·vac·u·at·ing, e·vac·u·ates v.tr. 1. a. To empty or remove the contents of. b. To create a vacuum in. 2. from 10 houses overnight when a neighbor holed up in his home after threatening his wife with a gun outside her work. Following a standoff of more than eight hours, Special Weapons Team deputies used tear gas tear gas, gas that causes temporary blindness through the excessive flow of tears resulting from irritation of the eyes. The gas is used in chemical warfare and as a means for dispersing mobs. , flash-bang grenades and nonlethal nylon bullets to force Bill Lance, 47, outside to surrender after he threatened to come out shooting if he wasn't allowed to talk to his wife. ``Evidently in his conversations he was having with our crisis negotiator, he was pretty much despondent de·spon·dent adj. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected. de·spon  dent·ly adv. over his life and wanted us to shoot him, which is why he wanted to come out shooting,'' Deputy Marty Shearer said Friday after the standoff was over. Booked for making terrorist threats, assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. on a peace officer and weapons violations, Lance was placed under suicide watch suicide watch n. A procedural tour of duty in a prison in which guards frequently check the cells of inmates suspected of suicidal tendencies. at Men's Central Jail. Inside the home in the 3200 block of Margate Place, deputies said, they found two handguns and a shotgun, all loaded. The incident began shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday when Lance went to Sierra Realty on West Palmdale Boulevard, where his wife works, and brandished a handgun at her in the parking lot, deputies said. She drove away quickly, chased by her husband in his car. The woman evaded Lance and drove to the Palmdale Sheriff's Station. When deputies arrived at the couple's home, they saw Lance through its windows holding what appeared to be a rifle. They surrounded the house and evacuated neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. homes. About 8:35 p.m., Lance stepped out the front door, repeatedly told deputies to kill him, and pointed a pistol at them. A deputy fired his pistol at Lance, but missed, and the man ran back into the house. Deputies then heard many shots inside the house. Deputies moved to force him out of the house shortly before 5 a.m. after they decided he was not going to surrender, officials said. Three of the nylon bullets hit him in the legs and body, and he was treated at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital for bruises and the tear gas effects. |
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