ELK GROVE, Calif. — Update
Elk Grove police have ended a 12-hour standoff after finding the suspect in yard not far from where he was holed up.
In a tweet from Elk Grove Police Department, while SWAT teams were searching the home, police received calls of a man going through backyards near Ammolite Way.
A resident in the area told police they noticed a suspicious man walking between cars as they left the neighborhood. The man was found and taken into custody shortly after police received those calls.
“That’s definitely what we want people to do is if you notice, or recognize or observe someone in your backyard that you don’t recognize, definitely give us a call especially, if you see that police activity that’s going on," Jeremy Banks, spokesperson for Elk Grove Police Department, said.
Kelly Alexieff, the resident in the area who spotted the suspect, told ABC10 she saw someone on their home surveillance walking between their two cars.
“We didn’t know he was the suspect, it was just weird he was walking in between our two parked cars in the driveway of our house," Alexieff said. "I mean, I just can’t believe it, I can’t believe that he was out. We just assumed that he was barricaded, so we thought maybe it was just somebody else, but it was just not right, not right for someone to be walking at that time.”
Original story
The Elk Grove Police Department is asking people to stay inside after a person barricaded themselves in a home in Elk Grove on Wednesday night.
Police said the person barricaded themselves in the area of Ammolite and Tusk Ways around 10:30 p.m.
Throughout the night, police said they have tried to speak with the suspect and have him surrender peacefully. As of 7 a.m. Thursday, the person is still barricaded in the home.
Police suggest those who need to leave their homes for school or work should travel eastbound toward Glacial Way and Willard Parkway.
Police said the suspect came to Elk Grove after being chased from Sacramento by another agency. An air unit followed the suspect into the Ammolite Way area where police said the suspect was seen running into a house.
Officers have set up a perimeter around the home.
Police did not say why people nearby should shelter in place, and did not release identity of the suspect.
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