A SWAT team surrounded an apartment complex in Otay Ranch for hours before a stabbing suspect and his companion were taken into custody Tuesday.
The stabbing suspect barricaded himself inside an apartment complex near Birch Road and Eastlake Parkway after 8 p.m. Monday, the San Diego Police Department said.
About three hours later, a SWAT team was called to the complex and family members were asked to evacuate. One man refused to exit the apartment.
Some neighboring residents were also forced to evacuate.
Throughout the night, officers could be heard calling for both men to surrender. Flashbang grenades were used to try to force them out of the apartment.
More than six hours after the standoff began, both men were found in the apartment's attic and were taken into custody, SDPD said. The second man was taken into custody on obstruction charges.
The suspect was wanted for stabbing another man in the head near Avenida de la Cruz and Beyer Boulevard in San Ysidro at about 8 p.m. Monday, SDPD said.
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When police responded to several calls about the stabbing, the suspect drove off in a black car, crashing into three parked cars as he fled the scene, SDPD said.
SDPD said the man stabbed was a passerby who was trying to break up a fight between the suspect and another person. Early reports from SDPD said the man may have known the person who was stabbed.
SDPD's ABLE helicopter followed the suspect to the Otay Ranch apartment complex, about 10 miles from the stabbing scene, where the SWAT standoff began.
No other information was available.
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