3 Men Arrested in Ventura After 5-Hour Standoff : Shooting: The suspects, who allegedly fired at a police officer responding to a burglary call, surrender peacefully.

Dozens of residents were evacuated from a west Ventura neighborhood Monday after three men who allegedly fired at a police officer staged a five-hour standoff with the SWAT team, authorities said.

Arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon were Trenton Layne Warnock, 25; Jimmie Todd Shankle, 22, and Jed Levi Malmquist, 21, all of Ventura. A gun was recovered from an apartment.

Shankle and Malmquist were taken into custody shortly after 7 p.m. after they surrendered unarmed at the apartment building on West Ramona Street near Ventura Avenue.

According to police, Officer Chris Davis was responding to a burglary call shortly after 2 p.m. on Ramona Street. As Davis walked by a fence near a five-unit apartment building, shots were fired, barely missing him, police said.

Davis called for help and soon 15 police officers surrounded the area, cordoning off streets in a three-square-block area and evacuating residents from the apartment building and from neighboring single-family houses.

After pinpointing the apartment from which they believed the shots were fired, police used a loudspeaker to urge the occupants to come out. The residents of the apartment did not have a telephone, police said.

After nearly two hours, Warnock walked out of the apartment and turned himself in. Meanwhile, members of the Ventura SWAT team were called.

Three hours later, the two other men surrendered and were taken to Ventura County Jail, where they were held for questioning.

Although police did not identify the suspects, the owner of the apartment building, William Rands, said in the last three months, he has rented the one-bedroom apartment to a young couple, a male and a female.

“They are good kids. I’ve never had any problems with them at all,” Rands said. “Once in a while they don’t pay the rent on time, but that’s it.”

But neighbors said the residents of the apartment often played loud music and threw parties that disturbed the entire block.

Evert Smith and his wife, Kim, said the noise often kept them awake at night and prompted people in the building to call the police.

“They had no respect for the people in the building,” Smith said. “They had wild parties nearly every day.”

An elderly woman, who did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation, said she called the police twice a day to complain, but nothing was ever done.

“I would sit there, and bang my cane on the wall hoping that they would stop, but it was a waste of time,” said the woman who lives in a nearby apartment. “They played heavy-metal music, drank beer and screamed at each other the whole day long.”

Officer James Cubitt, who has patrolled the Ventura Avenue area for 16 years, said the Police Department has received about 730 calls from the three-block area in the past year.

Joan Atwood, a resident who lives in a house in the 100 block of Ramona Street, said things are getting worse every day.

“I hear gunshots every night and I’m scared of going out in the back yard at night,” Atwood said. “It’s just awful.”