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A California sheriff’s deputy and four others were fatally shot this weekend when his SWAT team tried to rescue people held hostage inside a San Joaquin Valley home by a man armed with an AK-47-style rifle and a handgun.

An hours-long standoff between an allegedly armed man who was holding two people, including a woman in her 90s, and a LAPD SWAT team in Lake View Terrace ended Friday morning with the man giving himself up, according to a report from the scene.

A man who once stalked and broke into the home of actress Sandra Bullock committed suicide by cutting himself during a standoff with a SWAT team at his La Crescenta home, authorities said Saturday.

Police Thursday identified the 53-year-old Oregon man shot and killed by SWAT officers in Long Beach after he claimed to have explosives in his vehicle and held them at bay for nearly two hours as Donald McFarlane.

A SWAT team has put an Anaheim neighborhood on lock-down as they try to get a barricaded man there to surrender. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.

A SWAT Team ended an hours-long standoff with a man who barricaded himself in a Sylmar home after he threatened his mother with a hatchet. Robert Kovacik reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018.

A SWAT team responded to an armed person Tuesday in the Garden Grove area after they barricaded themselves in a police patrol vehicle.

A 20-year-old man was clinging to life today with wounds inflicted by a sheriff’s SWAT team after he allegedly fired at sheriff’s deputies in unincorporated Willowbrook, just outside Compton.

A Beverly Grove neighborhood was on lock-down after a man barricaded himself and took others hostage in a home. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017.

Sheriff’s deputies fired tear gas into a man’s Santa Monica hideout, forcing him out and bringing an hours-long standoff to an end Saturday.