Shooting Leads To Lengthy Standoff In Downtown LA
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) - A SWAT team responded Monday to a downtown Los Angeles apartment building after a man ran inside after firing shots at a passing vehicle, police said.
Officers were sent shortly before noon to the area of Eighth and Santee streets on a report of shots fired shortly before noon, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. No one was hit by the gunfire.
Police say the man, believed to be in his 20s, was armed with a handgun.
The man fired shots at a passing vehicle before barricading himself inside the building.
SWAT officers took the gunman into custody. No one was hurt in the shooting.
#DTLA barricade: Gunman shot at passing vehicle, no one hit, man now barricaded inside apt building on Santee, say police. @KNX1070 pic.twitter.com/HQbf7NLNba
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Traffic was being rerouted away from the intersection.
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