ANAHEIM : Daylong Standoff Ends Without Fight

An 11-hour standoff ended without gunfire late Wednesday when heavily armed SWAT officers burst into a Glen Oaks Avenue apartment and captured a man who had been holed up there since allegedly shooting an acquaintance at a bar early that morning.

“We didn’t have anybody hurt, and no shots were fired,” said Sgt. Chet Barry of the Anaheim Police Department.

The SWAT team’s actions ended a daylong standoff that began after David Nunn was shot in the head about 8:15 a.m. in the Sherwood Inn bar on Brookhurst Street, police said. After critically wounding Nunn, authorities said, the suspect, identified as Lyle Herschell Martin, 57, of Anaheim, retreated to his apartment, where he frustrated police by resisting an array of attempts to coax or force him from the apartment.

Even tear gas and flash-bang grenades failed to roust him, police said.

Nunn was was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange where he was in the intensive care unit late Wednesday. A hospital spokeswoman described his condition as critical. Police said he was “not expected to live through the night.”

Arriving on the scene just minutes after the shooting, police were told that the suspect lived in the 200 block of Glen Oaks Avenue in an apartment complex known as the Glen Oaks Apartments. They surrounded the unit, but for two hours Martin would not answer a telephone to talk with a police officer serving as a negotiator, said Officer Rick Razee.

Martin eventually agreed to talk by phone with the negotiator for brief periods, but later in the afternoon the conversation broke off. To try to persuade him to surrender--or at least talk with them--SWAT officers hurled so-called flash-bang grenades near the apartment at 2:50 p.m. and fired tear-gas canisters at 3:20 p.m. and again about 6 p.m.

Still, the suspect refused to surrender. SWAT officers reportedly could see him moving around inside the tan, first-floor apartment. They heard him yelling in anger when officers cut off electricity at nightfall.

SWAT sharpshooters were stationed in bushes and rooftops surrounding the apartment. A block of Greenleaf Avenue parallel to the Santa Ana Freeway was blocked by police all day and many residents waited on the perimeter unable to return to their units.

Police said Martin would be booked on suspicion of attempted murder.

Times photographer Richard Koehler contributed to this report.