The incident began just after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday when LAPD officers responded to reported gunshots. Officers requested backup and began searching the Broadway Palace Apartments.

Did you know LAPD SWAT was the nation’s first SWAT team? Stood up in the late 1960’s, the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team paved the road ahead for the rest of the nation’s SWAT teams.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A police SWAT team was searching for a possible burglary suspect Monday at a South Los Angeles apartment building that was tented for fumigation, authorities said. A Los ...

SWAT teams with the Los Angeles Police Department are in a barricade situation with a suspect in East Hollywood who is believed to have shot two people in an apartment complex. Omar Lewis reports for ...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An armed suspect engaged in a five-hour standoff with police in South LA after a shootout that resulted in one SWAT officer's helmet being nicked by a bullet. The situation ...

Matthew Rodriguez is a digital producer for CBS Los Angeles. He's previously reported for local outlets like the Argonaut and Pasadena Weekly. Matt typically covers breaking news and crime. Los ...

The man wanted for armed robbery, leading to a SWAT standoff outside of a Lafayette home he was thought to be barricaded ...

A SWAT team in Apple Valley pulled a suspect through his car's window after a standoff in a grocery store parking lot Wednesday. The standoff started a little after 11:15 a.m. when deputies tried to ...

LA MESA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A mother with a child who was making threats to officers was detained after an hours-long SWAT standoff in La Mesa, authorities said. Around 1 p.m., authorities received ...

Dozens of families in East Los Angeles were ordered to vacate and stay away from their homes Monday as SWAT officers work to persuade a man barricaded in a residence to come out. The hours-long ...