Suicidal veteran, Los Banos police in two-hour standoff

Suicidal veteran, Los Banos police in two-hour standoff
Merced Sun Star
Corey Pride
Published: July 27, 2013

GENE LIEB/glieb@losbanosenterprise.com Los Banos Police Chief Gary Brizzee, pointing, gives direction to Sgt. Zina Holden while other officers keep watch on a house on Lombardy Court.
LOS BANOS ENTERPRISE

LOS BANOS — A suicidal man with a gun had a more than two-hour standoff with police Thursday afternoon.

The man, whose age is unknown and identity is being withheld, surrendered to police and was taken to a Veterans Administration hospital for treatment.

Cmdr. Ray Reyna Jr. said that at 2:37 p.m. his department received a call from a crisis hot line reporting a suicidal veteran with a gun in a residence on the 2000 block of Lombardy Court.

Police responded to the residence and called the man, who was alone in the home.

"We made contact with him and he informed us that if we got close to the residence he was going to shoot us," Reyna said. "He said he could see us and he was loading the rifle."

Police called for backup and moved away from the home to the Ancona Street intersection. They left their vehicles near the man's residence for fear that moving them would cause him to start shooting, Reyna said.
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