DELUSIONAL MAN ARRESTED AFTER STANDOFF.Byline: Ryan Oliver Staff Writer A six-hour standoff with an armed and delusional man ended Friday when Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. SWAT officers subdued him with Taser fire. The 33-year-old man charged out of his house in the 21000 block of Gault n. 1. (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period. Street about 8 p.m., forcing officers to fire a Taser gun at him before taking him into custody, said Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . Sgt. John Cudworth. ``His family said he's been acting strange for several days,'' Cudworth said. ``This here is the culmination of that.'' The standoff began about 2 p.m. when a neighbor reported hearing gunfire. Patrol officers responded and found a bullet hole in a sliding glass door at a nearby house. They then heard the suspect muttering mut·ter v. mut·tered, mut·ter·ing, mut·ters v.intr. 1. To speak indistinctly in low tones. 2. To complain or grumble morosely. v.tr. to himself and handling firearms inside another house, Cudworth said. SWAT officers were called to the scene after the man refused demands over the phone and a bullhorn to surrender, he said. Police believe the man might be mentally ill, or was under the influence of narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. . A significant quantity of cocaine and methamphetamine was found on him at the time of his arrest, Cudworth said. Ryan Oliver, (818) 713-3669 ryan.oliver(at)dailynews.com |
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