FOOTHILL FARMS (CBS13) – A Foothill Farms woman has died and her adult son is in custody for allegedly killing her inside her elderly apartment on Tuesday night.
The confrontation sparked a massive response from Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies who exchanged gunfire with the suspect before he surrendered.
The sheriff’s office says deputies were called to the 5400 block house on Auburn Boulevard for a national dispute between family members. When deputies arrived at the scene, they said they fired shots from inside an apartment. Deputies fired again and withdrew, causing a conflict situation.
Linda Elmore says she was in the hallways when deputies told her to return to her unit for her own safety.
“Massive,” Elmore said. “I’ve never seen so many police cars at once.”
Around 6 p.m., the sheriff’s office warned the public to move away from the area while negotiators responded to the spot. In a tweet, the sheriff’s office said there was a “large police presence on block 5400 of Auburn Blvd for an armed and barricaded subject.”
The mother and another family member had called the sheriff’s office for help.
Leslie Marinello lives in the apartment complex for the elderly and heard the shots from her home.
“Oh man, yeah, when they left, they were one hundred percent, I’ve never heard anything like that,” Marinello said.
Deputies eventually called a hostage negotiator and the suspect surrendered. The violent confrontation occurred just one day after the death of a deputy mayor in the line of duty.
“In the end, MPs put aside what has happened in the last few days and go out and do what these professional men and women do,” Sacramento Mayor Sergeant Rod Grassman said.
The suspect in this shooting was taken to a hospital with what is described as a superficial bullet wound. The Sacramento Sheriff’s Department did not immediately identify him.
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