A man's body was found inside an Imperial Beach house following a SWAT standoff, San Diego Sheriff's Department (SDSO) officials said.
The standoff started at approximately 2:51 p.m. Sunday at Florence Street and Cypress Avenue when the suspect, identified as Aurelio Perez, stabbed his wife, deputies said. He proceeded to lock himself in the house and refused to surrender, deputies said.
His wife was taken to the UC San Diego Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries.
The couple has four kids together, and none of them were home when the stabbing occured.
"So I kind of woke up, got out of my chair, and then I heard somebody run upstairs - sounded like the police - and I heard them beating the door. And after that all these police came and they told me to evacuate. That's about it," neighbor Richard Johnson explained.
Calla Avenue and Cypress Avenue were closed as deputies worked. Two units next to where the suspect was hiding were evacuated.
SWAT officials fired flashbangs, and shot gas inside the home. Once they sent in a robot, they found the man's body. The fatal wound was self-inflicted, officials said.
