SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The San Diego Police Department says a homicide investigation is underway after a standoff that lasted several hours at a Del Cerro motel ended with the suspect's arrest, but not before he stabbed a police dog.
Once police subdued and arrested the suspect, they entered the room he was barricaded in and found a dead woman.
Police have identified the suspect as Owerrie Davon Bacon, Jr., a 28-year-old man from San Bernardino.
SDPD first received a call around 11 a.m. Friday from staff of the Days Inn motel, located at 5343 Adobe Falls Road, reporting they needed help to get a man out of a room after he threatened them with a knife.
Police said they'd been called to the room for the same suspect several times in the last several days.
"That changed because the information that there was blood seen in the room, man was barricaded in the room with a knife and then there was an odor that was coming from the room that might have been indicative of a deceased person," police said.
Negotiations went on for hours, when SWAT was eventually called and the man, who was still refusing to surrender, threatened to shoot officers.
Police said they deployed tear gas and their K-9 unit around 6:30 p.m. The suspect stabbed the dog, but the K-9 expected to survive.
"It looks like the protective vest that the dog wears stopped several of those impacts but the dog was stabbed and rushed to a veterinary hospital, looks like he’s going to survive his injuries," SDPD said.
Once inside, officers discovered the body of a woman dead in the room. The dog was identified as Hondo, and he had been stabbed on the job before.
SDPD says its detectives are still trying to learn what the relationship was between the victim and Bacon. The victim has been identified, but police are notifying next of kin before releasing her name. She is described as a 31-year-old Black woman.
Police stayed on the scene throughout the night and into Saturday morning.
Bacon was booked into the San Diego County Jail on the following charges:
- Murder
- Attempted Murder
- Assault with a Deadly Weapon
- Assaulting a Police Service Dog with a Deadly Weapon
