San Diego

A 2 1/2-hour standoff between a San Diego man armed with a shotgun and a rifle and Special Weapons and Tactics officers ended Thursday morning when SWAT officers snuck up on the man in his home while he dozed, said Lt. Lou Scanlon of the San Diego Police Department.

About 12:05 a.m., San Diego police responded to a call from a woman who said her husband had held a shotgun to her head and threatened to kill her. June Marie Odom told police she escaped from her husband, Dennis Ray Odom, 37, when he walked outside and fired a bullet through the rear window of an unoccupied car, Scanlon said.

Dennis Odom then went back inside the home in the 100 block of Royal Oak Drive. Inside the home with him were his children, Phadra, 16; Cheree, 14, and Kyla 22 months, and June Odom’s niece Tammy, 20.

A SWAT team was called in about 2 a.m. when attempts to contact Odom by phone and bullhorn failed, Scanlon said.

SWAT officers surrounded the house and waited until 4:30 a.m., when they assumed Odom and the children were asleep. After trying to call Odom by phone again, SWAT officers entered the house and found him asleep on the living-room sofa. A shotgun and rifle were lying against a coffee table and several rounds of ammunition were on the table, Scanlon said.

Odom was arrested without incident and taken to County Jail, where he was held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

Scanlon said the children were unharmed.