Manhunt, arrest after San Francisco-area cops shot at

SAN FRANCISCO -- A 23-year-old man accused of firing at police officers was taken into custody after authorities from San Francisco Bay Area communities surrounded a neighborhood in South San Francisco for nearly eight hours Thursday morning, CBS San Francisco station KPIX-TV reports.

Ivan DeJesus Gomez was arrested following an incident that began shortly after 3 a.m. New Year's Day, when officers responded to reports of gunshots heard in an area, according to police.

While searching the area on foot, the officers were fired upon by a suspect who was apparently hiding from them. The officers returned fire and the suspect ran away, police said.

Neither the officers or suspect were struck by the gunfire.

Officers from several law enforcement agencies responded to search for the suspect, who was eventually found at about 10:30 a.m. hiding a short distance from the shooting scene and was identified as Gomez, police said.

Police, who told residents in the area to stay indoors during the search for the suspect, have not yet found the weapon used in the shooting.

Gomez was taken to San Mateo County Jail to be booked on suspicion of attempted murder of two police officers, according to police.

The shooting comes amid heightened tensions nationwide over attacks on police elsewhere in the country after the killings of unarmed black men by white officers in Missouri and New York.

This week in Los Angeles, two officers came under fire, initially stirring concerns they had been ambushed days after two New York City officers were killed. But an investigation found the LAPD officers drove into gang-related gunfire Sunday.