A murder suspect was barricaded Saturday in Palmdale, where sheriff’s crisis negotiators were trying to get the man to surrender peacefully.
Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to the 36800 block of James Place around 11:40 a.m., according to Deputy Veronica Fantom.
The LASD’s Special Enforcement Bureau was called to the scene to assist deputies from the LASD’s Palmdale station and have taken over command while crisis negotiators try to make contact with the man, Fantom said.
According to news photographer at the scene, the suspect’s relatives came to the location and his mother reportedly made contact with him, but he said he was not coming out.
Further information about the alleged murder was not immediately available.