8-Hour Standoff Nets 3 People Detained: San Jose Police

SAN JOSE, CA — Two men and a woman were being detained by San Jose police Sunday night after an eight-hour standoff in the 2100 block of Stone Avenue, police said.

The three people emerged from the house, peacefully, shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday, eight hours after police had been called to the residence on Stone Avenue, near Curtner Avenue, said San Jose police Officer Gina Tepoorten.

Police were told of a possible dispute there involving people with at least one firearm, and were asked to make a welfare check on the occupants there. Police spent the next eight hours trying to contact the occupants of that residence.

Tepoorten said crisis negotiators and the department's SWAT team responded to the scene. Eventually, she said, the three came out after officers using a PA system persuaded them to emerge.

Stone Avenue, which had been closed off between Curtner and Perrymont Avenues, was subsequently reopened to traffic.

Police were still trying to determine why the standoff started, and what happened in the house during the day, Tepoorten said.

—Bay City News