{"id":97863,"date":"2025-12-17T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/97863\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T05:54:11","slug":"police-swat-team-responds-to-barricaded-suspect-in-gaslamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/97863\/","title":{"rendered":"Police SWAT team responds to barricaded suspect in Gaslamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Barricaded-Suspect.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Barricaded-Suspect.jpg\" alt=\"Police vehicles around a SWAT van.\" class=\"wp-image-359761\"  \/><\/a>Police vehicles at the scene of the SWAT standoff in the Gaslamp on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Hours after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego police<\/a> SWAT team responded to a barricaded suspect in an apartment near the Gaslamp District, officers had him in custody, but a K-9 was injured in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple police vehicles converged on the 200 block of J Street shortly after noon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect is wanted in connection with an assault with a deadly weapon call and may be armed,\u201d police said in a post on X. \u201cPlease avoid the area as officers work to resolve the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were reports from the scene in the Gaslamp that police used tear gas in an attempt to force the suspect out.<\/p>\n<p>A witness said a woman living in the apartment had been assaulted by a man with baseball bat. After seeing him Tuesday, she called the police. He did not come out when ordered and police were believed to have him barricaded in a bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police have yet to offer details about the condition of the canine or how the standoff ended.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Childress contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 5:25 p.m. Dec. 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police vehicles at the scene of the SWAT standoff in the Gaslamp on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Photo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[41668,18944,53491,74,76,75,985,9725],"class_list":["post-97863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-armed","tag-barricade","tag-gaslamp-district","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police","tag-swat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97863","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=97863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}