Man in custody after hourslong standoff in San Gabriel area

A man is in custody after an hourslong standoff with a man in the San Gabriel area. 

Law enforcement in tactical gear armed with guns and K9’s swarmed a house in South San Gabriel trying to capture a fleeing suspect.

“I don’t know if he came through our yard but i heard something hit our air conditioner on side,” George Amezcua said. 

Amezcua said he heard banging and thought someone was in his yard.

“Like he hit a trash can like a bang like he was jumping over a fence or something,” Amezcua said. 

The suspect broke into Amezcua’s neighbors garage and then ran down the street trying to barricade himself in another home, but law enforcement didn’t let him get far, using a battering ram and k9’s to help take him into custody and then into an ambulance.

It all began earlier on Wednesday on the 800 block of Muscatel in South San Gabriel where the man was holed up inside a home for hours.

“The neighbor across the street, the police were chasing him all over and then he went and barricaded himself into the residence across the street from my daughter. I know that it had to do with a kidnapping,” Lavenia Mazon said.

Sheriffs haven’t confirmed what the man is wanted for. Law enforcement surrounded the home and evacuated nearby residents.

“Sheriff just walked in and said we are asking that everybody please leave the premises right now,” Palomares said. 

Officers in tactical gear tried to get the man to exit the home and hours after the standoff began, he ran out the back of the house and onto the 60 freeway.

Sheriffs say he crossed all lanes of the 60 and then entered the neighborhood on highpoint street, breaking into at least two homes before he was finally caught.