UPDATE: Sheriff's robot makes entry into suspect home in La Mirada
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DEPUTIES OUTSIDE OF HOME IN LA MIRADA THAT HAS BEEN SURROUNDED SINCE 8 A,M,
LCCN EXCLUSIVE PHOTO
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By Randy Economy
3:35 p.m.
www.loscerritosnews.net
Los Cerritos Community News has learned that members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have made entry into the barricaded house across the street from Los Coyotes Middle School in La Mirada via a mechanical robot.
Norwalk Sheriff's Captain Pat Maxwell told LCCN at 3:15 p.m. that they were successful in gaining entry into the home located at 15966 Algeciras Street where a suspect has been held up since around 8 a.m. Friday morning.
Maxwell said that the garage door has been knocked down and that at least two rooms of the house have been already searched. He also said that other rooms are still in the process of being checked.
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Man, what an afternoon here in La Mirada. Los Cerritos Community News was the FIRST on the scene to break this story today. I have also just been told from a source that the suspect may have lost a "lot of blood" and his condition is not known as of 2:19 p.m.
EXCLUSIVE!
1:55 pm:
Fifty Deputies, SWAT
officers surrounding barricaded suspect at 15966 Algeciras in La
Mirada; Nearby students evacuated to La Mirada High School
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Location where suspect is held up in La Mirada at 15966 Algeciras
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• Fri, Dec 02, 2011
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- Norwalk Sheriff’s Captain Pat Maxwell has told Los Cerritos Community News that the location where the suspect is being held up is 15966 Algeciras Street in La Mirada, immediately across the street from Los Coyotes Middle School.
- Los Cerritos Community News has also been told by Maxwell that all of the students who attend Los Coyotes have been successfully evacuated to La Mirada High School and are at the Gym. Parents can pick up students at LMHS.
- Maxwell said that more than 50 deputies and members of the SWAT Unit are on the scene and have not directly been in contact with the suspect.
- Maxwell said they are confident about who the suspect is, but are not going to release his name at this time.
LIVE Update at 12:04 p.m.
Los
Cerritos Community News has been told that students from Los Coyotes
Middle School are in the process of being evacuated and taken to a
nearby park. Janet Winfrey lives on Mart Drive immediately behind the
house where a suspect has been barricaded since 7:45 a.m. inside a home
on the 14600 block of Mercado Avenue in La Mirada.
Winfrey
said the unidentified suspect being held “just started shooting a gun”
and was seen “running wild around the neighborhood” before he retreated
inside of his house.
Winfrey also said that residents are not
being allowed into the neighborhood by members of the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department and that the situation is "very tense."
"All of us who live here are scared and we can't get in or out of our
neighborhood.
9 a.m. Original Post:
Los
Cerritos Community News can confirm that school officials at Norwalk-La
Mirada Unified School District ordered the school to be closed off at
around 7:45 a.m. after members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department responded to a call about possible criminal activity in the
immediate area.
Officials inside the Superintendents Office at
NLMUSD tell LCCN that "all the students are safe, and that no police
activity is taking place on campus."
Los Coyotes Middle School is located near Rosecrans and Beach in La Mirada.
LCCN will have additional details as they develop.
--By Randy Economy
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