SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office said a subject and child are out of a home after an armed barricade situation in the North Highlands area. Officials said the toddler was in the house with the subject and that it was the subject's child, but did not say if the toddler was a hostage or not.
The sheriff's office told ABC10 they received a call at about 10:18 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1 of an armed barricaded suspect in the 6400 block of Channing Drive. They said it was possible that the situation had been going on since Saturday.
Just before 4 p.m. on Sunday, the sheriff's office tweeted that the barricaded subject and child were out of the home and safe.
Officials identified the man who barricaded himself as Johnny H. Phan, 36.
"You’re always concerned when there's children involved," said Sgt. Rod Grassman, spokesperson for the sheriff's office. "Most everybody who has their own children and can really put themselves, I think, in a place to where- how they would feel if they were in that situation. I think all the officers here always do and, particularly in this case, did what they can to bring a peaceful resolution so that subject wasn’t harmed and nor was the child."
Residents in the immediate vicinity of the barricaded area were temporarily evacuated.
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