A man who police say was armed with a handgun and barricaded inside a Honda Civic in North Hills was taken into custody by a SWAT team, which fired tear gas into his vehicle.
LAPD officers noticed the car at 3:14 a.m. Thursday parked illegally at the corner of Hayvenhurst Avenue and Schoenborn Street, an LAPD spokeswoman told City News Service.
The officers issued the man several verbal commands, but he did not responded, LAPD Officer Rosario Cervantes said.
The Honda’s tinted windows made it difficult to observe the condition of the driver, police said.
Officers established a perimeter of several blocks surrounding the suspect, who was taken into custody about 6:45 a.m., according to Cervantes.