An armed man continued a standoff with police Monday morning and remained barricaded inside a home in Arleta, authorities said.
Los Angeles Police Department officers were called at approximately 12:51 a.m. Monday to the intersection of Gruen Street and Canterbery Avenue regarding a report of a man with a gun, where they learned the suspect was armed and refusing to leave the residence, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.
The armed suspect allegedly had threatened a family member inside a residence, according to the LAPD’s Media Relations Section, which added that the department’s SWAT team was called out to the location at 4 a.m.
ABC 7 reported the suspect is armed with several guns and a rifle.
Fox 11 reported the suspect’s mother told police the suspect had recently been released from the hospital and had threatened to shoot birds.
Officers from the department’s SWAT team are on the scene and attempting to negotiate the suspect’s surrender, police said.
Police have evacuated the immediate area.