UPDATE: San Pedro homicide/standoff continues
The standoff continues out on 19th Street near Mesa in San Pedro.
Here's some stuff:
Here's some stuff:
- Police are negotiating with a man suspected of shooting another man to death on 11th Street near Pacific Avenue.
- The man possibly is hiding in his father's home.
- The shooting occurred about 10:30 a.m.
- "I was in the house and I just heard two shots," a neighbor said. "I just stayed in the house."
- Police officers found the wounded man lying in the street next to a gray Nissan. He was taken to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance.
- He died about 1 p.m.
- The shooter raced away in a pickup truckt. Police learned where he might be and blocked every street entering the neighborhood.
- As a helicopter circled above, a SWAT team moved in. Residents were told to stay in their homes. Others remained outside yellow tape.
- For hours, a police crisis negotiator tried to talk the suspect out. At one point about 1 p.m., police believed he was ready to surrender. He didn't and the drama dragged on.
- Administrators at 15th Street School locked down the campus, advising parents through telephone calls that their children were safe, being kept indoors and supervised by their teachers.
- Principal Jennifer Mak said parents received two calls during the day according to district protocol. The calls advised them that students would only be released to their parents or guardians and no one would be walking home.
- Mak said signs were posted around the school and parents were told in the phone calls to go to one gate at 15th and Mesa streets.
- Students received lunch inside campus buildings, and they were able to use the restrooms, but otherwise stayed indoors all day.
- "Their basic needs were being taken care of," Mak said.
- The motive for the shooting on 11th Street was not immediately known, but neighbors said the block was known for drug sales.
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