Suspected assault at 7-Eleven leads to Vista standoff [Breaking]
A man suspected of assaulting another man holed up inside a home in Vista Sunday afternoon, leading to a standoff that was still ongoing hours later, sheriff’s officials said.
The incident began around 1 p.m. when a bystander tried to intervene when a man and a woman were arguing inside a 7-Eleven, said sheriff’s Lt. Mike Krugh. The bystander called for help after he was allegedly assaulted by the man, Krugh said. Investigators were able to identify the suspect, determine where he lives and went to a home on West Indian Rock Road near North Santa Fe Avenue, but the man refused to come out of the home. Hours later, deputies had set up a perimeter and called in the SWAT team in hopes of taking the man into custody.