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 There were no reports of injuries, but all arrivals into San Diego
International Airport were put on hold during the incident at an
apartment complex in the city's Bankers Hill neighborhood, at the
eastern end of its runways.
Police named the suspect as Titus Colbert, 33, and said he will be
charged with attempting to murder a police officer. The local NBC
affiliate cited court records showing he was a gang member with a
serious criminal record.
"Our SWAT team did deploy (tear) gas on numerous occasions," San
Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman told a news conference.
"Eventually, the suspect did surrender and he was taken into
custody. We did find two weapons at the scene: one looks to be an
AK47-type weapon ... and a handgun," she said.
 Police SWAT team members had been in a five-hour standoff with
Colbert, who they said fired a high-powered rifle at officers who
then set up a perimeter around the apartment.
Police said they had been negotiating with the gunman, and reporters
on the scene said flash bang grenades were also used before he was
taken into custody.
Local residents had been asked not to leave their homes, police
said, and two schools in the area were placed on lockdown as a
precautionary measure.
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Police said officers were fired upon as they responded to a report
of a domestic violence disturbance shortly after 9 a.m. on Wednesday
morning. The gunman fired sporadically thereafter, they said.
The San Diego Union Tribune newspaper quoted an airport official as
saying that arriving flights had been affected because they have to
pass over the apartment complex when landing. Departing flights take
off in the opposite direction, the official said, and so were
unaffected.
(Reporting by Mike Blake; Additional reporting by Daniel Wallis in
Denver and Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago; Editing by Sandra Maler and
Eric Walsh)
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