BREAKING NEWS: Ax-wielding man in standoff in Harbor Gateway
Special weapons team officers have surrounded a house in Harbor Gateway where a man armed with an ax is holed up in his bedroom.
A neighbor said police were called about 8 a.m. to the 21100 block of Denker Avenue when the 23-year-old man broke windows on the neighbor's father's car and house with a piece of wood from a broken fence, the neighbor said.
The man then ran inside ran inside the house, hacked his bedroom door with an ax and barricaded himself inside, Los Angeles police Capt. Rick Wall said.
Neighbors were evacuated.
A SWAT team surrounded the man's house and were calling over a loudspeaker for him to pick up the phone. The standoff continued at 1:30 p.m.
Wall said the barricaded man had mental issues/
The man's family members, sitting in a police car down the street, refused to comment.
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