SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A man who allegedly fired a gun out of a Mountain View-area apartment Friday, causing no injuries but damaging a parked car, holed up inside the residence when police arrived, prompting a brief SWAT standoff that ended in his arrest.
The gunfire - a series of three to six shots, according to witnesses - erupted about 6 a.m. Friday in the 200 block of Vista Horizon Street, west of Interstate 805 and just south of Imperial Avenue, according to the San Diego Police Department.
When officers arrived, the suspect - later identified as 45-year-old Travis Kingston Kirk - allegedly refused to exit the residence and surrender. After about an hour of negotiating in vain with the suspect, police sent in a special weapons and tactics team.
The stalemate continued until shortly before 8 a.m., when Kirk walked out of the apartment and gave himself up, SDPD Officer David O'Brien said.
Inside the residence, officers found a semiautomatic rifle and several rounds of ammunition, according to police, who disclosed no suspected motive for the shooting.
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