Stabbing suspect arrested after hourslong standoff at Rolando home – NBC 7 San Diego

A stabbing attack at a Rolando Village-area home left two people wounded Thursday and led to a nearly five-hour police standoff that ended with a woman under arrest.

The alleged assault in the 4700 block of 68th Street was reported shortly before 9 a.m., according to the San Diego Police Department.

Patrol officers arrived to find two victims suffering from non-life-threatening cuts, police said.

The suspect barricaded herself in the home, still armed with a knife, and refused repeated orders to surrender, SDPD said. After several hours of stalemate, police called in a SWAT team to take up positions around the residence and prepare to enter forcibly, if necessary.

Wayne Onyune has lived next door for 10 years. He told NBC 7 that he looked outside and saw 15-20 police cars in front of the neighbor's house.

"A couple of police officers came next door to us and said we have to leave because they are going to gas the place, and just to be safe, we need to get out and go down the street," Onyune said.

Officers say they released a chemical agent similar to tear gas and used loud banging noises to try to get the barricaded woman to cooperate and come outside. They wouldn't go inside the home because they didn't know what the woman was capable of and didn't want to risk the officers' safety, police told NBC 7.

The standoff continued until about 1:45 p.m., when the suspect was taken into custody. Her name and details on the arrest were not immediately available.

The circumstances that led to the alleged assault remained unclear in the late afternoon.

NBC 7's Shandel Menezes contributed to this report.