Hours-long standoff in Sacramento neighborhood ends with 1 arrest
Update: Police are now investigating a double homicide in connection with this incident. Read The Bee’s latest coverage here.
A Sacramento man was arrested after a late-night standoff with Sacramento police that stretched into the pre-dawn hours Friday.
The unidentified man surrendered to Sacramento police just before 6 a.m. in the 4400 block of 71st Street in the city’s Colonial Heights neighborhood, hours after a gunshot sent a SWAT team to his home.
The ordeal began at about 11:30 p.m. Friday, Sacramento Police Department officials said in a statement posted to social media, soon after officers were called to the home on reports of a disturbance.
Officers called in crisis negotiators and a police tactical team aboard armored vehicles to coax the barricaded man out of the home, a police spokesperson told reporters. The stalemate stretched into the early morning hours as police evacuated nearby residents and told others to shelter in place.
At about 5:40 a.m., the man walked out of the home without incident and was taken into police custody, police said.
This story was originally published April 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM with the headline "Hours-long standoff in Sacramento neighborhood ends with 1 arrest."
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