FOOTHILL FARMS (CBS13) – A woman from Foothill Farms is dead and her adult son is under arrest for allegedly killing her at her retirement home Tuesday night.
The confrontation sparked a massive backlash from Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies, who exchanged gunfire with the suspect before surrendering.
The sheriff’s office says that deputies were called to the house at block 5400 of Auburn Boulevard over a domestic dispute between family members. When deputies arrived on the scene, they said gunshots sounded from an apartment. Delegates fired back and backed out, causing a deadlock.
Linda Elmore says she was in the hallways when sheriffs’ deputies told her to return to her unit for her own safety.
“Huge,” said Elmore. “I’ve never seen so many police cars at once.”
At around 6pm, the sheriff’s office warned the public to stay away as negotiators responded to the scene. In a tweet, the sheriff’s office said there was “a large police presence in the 5400 block of Auburn Blvd for an armed, barricaded topic.”
The mother and another family member had both called the sheriff’s office asking for help.
Leslie Marinello lives in the senior apartment complex and heard the shots from her house.
“Oh man, yeah when they left it was a hundred at a time, I’ve never heard anything like it,” said Marinello.
Deputies eventually called in a hostage negotiator and the suspect surrendered. The violent confrontation came just a day after a sheriff’s deputy was murdered while on duty.
“At the end of the day, delegates put aside what has happened in the past few days and they come out and do what these professional men and women are doing,” said Sacramento Sheriff Sergeant Rod Grassman.
The suspect in this shooting was taken to a hospital with what has been described as a superficial gunshot wound. The Sacramento sheriff’s department did not immediately identify him.
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