A Domestic disturbance call led
to a five-hour standoff with Ventura County deputies and ended with LAPD
traffic cop dead of an apparent suicide, police say.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -
Authorities said an off-duty Los Angeles police officer was found dead in an
apparent suicide after a standoff with Ventura County deputies.
Sr. Deputy Tim Lohman said
deputies found the officer dead at a home in Thousand Oaks Tuesday about five hours
after the incident began.
Lohman said deputies responded
to a domestic disturbance call at about 1:30 p.m. to find a woman who had fled
from the house, and a man barricaded inside.
Lohman said after hours of
trying to contact the man deputies went inside and found him dead.
He said the death is an
apparent suicide but would give no further details.
LAPD spokesman Officer Drake
Madison said the officer was from the department's Valley Division and assigned
to traffic but had no further details on his identity.
