SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A landlord suspected of attacking a tenant with a baseball bat Thursday morning barricaded themselves inside a Normal Heights home, prompting a standoff that lasted several hours.
San Diego police said they received a call just after 6:30 a.m. regarding a landlord and a tenant in a fight in the 4800 block of 35th Street. A short time later, police received a report of one of the participants hitting the other with a baseball bat.
Police later confirmed the landlord was suspected of assaulting the tenant with the bat before fleeing.
Officers arrived at the scene as the suspected attacker entered a home and refused orders to come out, prompting a standoff.
A SWAT team was called to the scene and negotiations with the landlord lasted through 10 a.m.
Because of the police activity, the public was asked to avoid the 4800 block of 35th St., between Collier and Copley avenues.
By 11 a.m., the landlord was taken into custody, police told ABC 10News.
There was no immediate word on the tenant’s possible injuries.
