SANTEE : Gunman Arrested After Standoff
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Sheriff’s deputies wrestled a 32-year-old Santee man to the ground and arrested him Sunday after he barricaded himself in his house, fired two shots at deputies and then pointed a gun at his head.
John Paul Thompson, who is unemployed, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and brandishing a weapon after the standoff, which began about 4 p.m. Sunday, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.
Deputies were called to Thompson’s house, in the 9900 block of Cleary Street, and found him locked inside, waving a handgun around, pointing it at deputies and threatening suicide.
Neighbors were evacuated while deputies and hostage negotiators tried to talk with Thompson by phone, the spokeswoman said.
When negotiations over the phone and a portable P.A. system failed, sheriff’s SWAT members threw a chemical agent into the house. Thompson then fired shots at sheriff’s personnel before coming out with the gun to his head, the spokeswoman said.
He then put the gun down and was taken into custody, receiving some minor cuts in the scuffle, the spokeswoman said.
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