A 24-year-old armed murder suspect was taken into custody Thursday after a nine-hour standoff with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s deputies in Compton.
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The suspect was arrested at around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Deputy Daniel Dominguez told City News Service.
The armed man was identified by Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau investigators as a suspect in the Jan. 7 shooting death of a man in the 12800 block of South San Pedro Street, near El Segundo Boulevard, in the unincorporated Willowbrook area, according to the department.
Deputies were called to the 1400 block of 131st Street around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in response to reports regarding an armed suspect, who had barricaded himself inside the residence…