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ANAHEIM : Murder Suspect Held After 11-Hour Siege

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A man who allegedly shot another man outside a bar Wednesday was captured after barricading himself in his Anaheim apartment for 11 hours, and was held on suspicion of murder Thursday after the victim died.

Lyle Herschell Martin, 57, was held in the death of David Jeffrey Nonn, 30, of Anaheim. Nonn clung to life for more than 16 hours after he was shot once in the head outside the Sherwood Inn on Brookhurst Street, police said. He died at 12:24 a.m. Thursday at UCI Medical Center in Orange, Police Lt. Marc Hedgpeth said.

The shooting was apparently provoked by an argument between Nonn and Martin concerning who was the better pool player, police said.

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Afterward, Martin went home to his apartment in the 2000 block of Glen Oaks Avenue. There, he held off police for more than 11 hours. He defied orders to come outside, hung up the telephone repeatedly on a police negotiator and withstood a tear-gas barrage, authorities said. He was finally taken into custody when SWAT officers rushed in, police said.

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