San Diego police SWAT team members surrounded an apartment on Wednesday where they said a man armed with a high-powered rifle was “contained” after shooting at officers responding to a domestic incident, police and local media said.
San Diego International Airport nearby put a hold on all arriving flights while the situation unfolded at a home in the Bankers Hill neighborhood, directly east of its runways.
There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
“We have him contained … The officers were able to safely retreat and set up a perimeter around the apartment,” San Diego Police Department spokesman Lieutenant Scott Wahl told reporters at the scene in footage broadcast by CNN.
Local residents were asked not to leave their homes, police said, and two schools in the area were placed on lockdown as a precautionary measure.
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.
Local media at the scene said officers were later trying to use teargas to flush out the suspect.
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 in question in order to land. Departing flights take off in the opposite direction, the official said, and so were unaffected.
