CAMPBELL (CBS SF) — Police officers in Campbell late Friday afternoon have safely taken the suspect at the center of an armed standoff at a Denny’s Restaurant into custody almost 11 hours after the incident started.
The standoff began around 5:30 a.m. at the Denny’s located in the 2000 block of South Bascom Ave.
Police said the incident began as an argument in the parking lot between the suspect and one of the employees. The suspect then followed the employee inside and threatened them with a gun.
The employee was able to escape and police called the restaurant to tell the other employees and customers inside to flee. They safely escape, leaving the gunman alone inside the Denny’s.
Helicopter video showed two armored SWAT vehicles — one from nearby Sunnyvale — and several heavily armed officers encircling the restaurant at 8:22 a.m.
The standoff has shut down traffic in both north and southbound lanes of Bascom Ave from Campbell to Dry Creek.
A crisis negotiation team is on the scene and has tried talking to the suspect over a loud speaker, but so far the armed man has remained inside the restaurant.
Neighbor Dani Neves lives directly across the street from the standoff.
“It’s a little anxious. I can see the Denny’s from where I live, so I’m a little nervous,” Neves said with a frightened laugh.
Margie Docs is a hairdresser whose salon has been shut down because of the standoff. All of her canceled appointments means hundreds of dollars in lost income. But she said she didn’t blame Campbell police for the lock down.
“I do not. It’s for everybody’s safety,” said Docs.
At about 12:15 p.m., the Campbell SWAT team used a flash-bang grenade, but had still not communicated with the suspect.
Shortly before 4:30 p.m., Campbell police tweeted that the suspect was in custody and the standoff was over.
Campbell police received assistance from the Santa Clara and Sunnyvale police departments and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office.
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