San Diego
A four-hour SWAT operation ended at 6:30 a.m. Sunday when a 30-year-old man who had brandished a shotgun, then took refuge in a home in the 3200 block of 30th Street, was arrested, police reported.
Craig Quatman of San Diego was taken to the county’s mental health facility for observation, police said.
The incident began at 9 p.m. Saturday after police received reports of a man screaming for help. At one point the man went outside the apartment, showed a shotgun and ducked back inside. The SWAT team was called at 1:20 a.m., but negotiations to talk the man outside failed and, at daybreak, flash-bang grenades were fired into his apartment to disorient him.
Officers stormed the heavily barricaded apartment and captured Quatman, who resisted arrest. There was no gunfire, police said.
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