{"id":298162,"date":"2026-05-03T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T18:01:07","slug":"attempted-murder-suspect-barricades-inside-santa-ana-hotel-room-holds-woman-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298162\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted murder suspect barricades inside Santa Ana hotel room, holds woman hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; An attempted murder suspect is barricaded inside a Santa Ana hotel room and is holding a woman hostage, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers apparently recognized the male suspect and attempted to make an arrest at around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, according to the Santa Ana Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The video featured in the media player above is the ABC7 Los Angeles 24\/7 streaming channel<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">That is when the man barricaded himself in a room at the Motel 6 located on 1501 North Harbor Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A SWAT team and crisis negotiators are at the scene. Harbor Boulevard is closed between 17th Street and Washington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The man is wanted for attempted murder for a homicide that occurred earlier this year, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It was not immediately known if the suspect is armed, but he has made threats to police, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Further information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This is a breaking news story. More details will be added as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; An attempted murder suspect is barricaded inside a Santa Ana hotel room and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[126360,163,165,164],"class_list":["post-298162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-126360","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}