By Toni Guinyard and Jonathan Lloyd, NBCLosAngeles.com
One person was sexually assaulted and another was stabbed in the neck during a hostage situation at a Southern California shopping center that ended early Friday after Los Angeles Police Department SWAT members entered a Nordstrom Rack and escorted at least 14 people from the building.
Gunmen at the Promenade at Howard Hughes Center in Westchester, Calif., held the hostages in a storage area before the early morning operation, said LAPD spokesman Andy Neiman. The hostages were being interviewed early Friday morning to determine what happened before 11 p.m. Thursday night, when LAPD officers from the Pacific Division received a 911 call from a man who said his girlfriend saw two armed men enter the store.
An officer witnessed a man exit the store, then run back inside after he noticed the officer.
"That heightened the officer's suspicion that something wasn't right," said Neiman.
Officers then saw another man grab a woman and run inside the store. At about midnight, officers had surrounded the Nordstrom Rack, which is on the second floor of the Promenade.
At about 2 a.m., SWAT members found 13 women and one man in the storage area. They were escorted out of the building.
The stabbing victim's wound is considered non-life threatening, Neiman said. The victim was treated and released at the scene.
Officers determined the gunmen were no longer in the store. They were following up on reports of a sport utility vehicle seen leaving the area.
Officers and an LAPD mobile command unit were searching a Culver City neighborhood early Friday, but it was not immediately clear whether the search was connected to the hostage situation.
Patrons at a movie theater in the complex told NBCLosAngeles.com they were asked to remain in the theater during the hostage situation.
The southbound lanes of the 405 Freeway, leading to Los Angeles International Airport, were temporarily shut down at the Howard Hughes Parkway off-ramp. By midnight, the lanes had been reopened though the exit appeared to remain cordoned off.
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jrs - all this media attention is drawing the crazies out of the woodwork.
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Officers determined the gunmen were no longer in the store.
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The hostages were being interviewed early Friday morning to determine what happened before 11 p.m. Thursday night, when LAPD officers from the Pacific Division received a 911 call from a man who said his girlfriend saw two armed men enter the store
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At about midnight, officers had surrounded the Nordstrom Rack,
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At about 2 a.m., SWAT members found 13 women and one man in the storage area.
OK LET ME GET THIS TRAIGHT FOR FOUR HOURS THEY THOUGH THERE WERE GUN MEN IN THE STORE ON A SECOND FLOOR WERE A COP SAW A MAN CRAB A GIRL AN GO BACK INTO THE STORE. A 2 AM THEY FOUND PEOPLE LOCKED IN A ROOM AN ONE POSABLY RAPED ANOTHER STABED AN THERE WERE NO BAD GUYS TO BE FOUND??????
WTF DID THEY DO STNAD THERE WITH THERE DICKS IN THERE HAND FOR 4 HOURS WHILE A WOMAN WAS BEIBG ASSULTED AN ANOTHER BLEADING ????? HOW THE F$%K DID THE BAD GUYS GET OUT ??????????????????????? IS THERE A BACK DOOR?????
WHAT DID THEY DO FOR AT LEAST 3 HOURS JUST STAND THERE AN MOT MAKE ANY CONTACT??????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????/ IN THE MEAN TIME THE CRIMINALS HAVE A 4 HOUR HEAD START?????? WOW JUST WOW!!!!!!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY PEOPLE NEED TO CARRY AN WBY WE FEEL WE NEED TO BE PROTECTED . IF ID BEEN STUCK IN THAT ROOM FOR 4 HOURS AFTERT THEY LEFT WITH BLEADING VICTOMS AN WHAT NOT AN THE COPS DID NOTHING iD HAVE BEEN SWINGING ON SOME ONE WHEN I GOT OUT . JUST WOW THERE AHS TO BE MORE TO THIS STORY. WHAT GOOD DID CLOSING A ROAD TO A AIR PORT DO ??????? HOW MANY PEOPLE MISSED FLIGHTS DUE TO THIS KEYSTONE COP CICRCLE JERK. WOW.
AN MOST MALLS DONT ALLOW CARRY AN IN CALIFORNIA VERY FEW CAN EVEN GET A PERMIT UNLESS YOUR A POLITICION OR MOVIE STAR. WOW.
OK LET ME GET THIS TRAIGHT FOR FOUR HOURS THEY THOUGH THERE WERE GUN MEN IN THE STORE ON A SECOND FLOOR WERE A COP SAW A MAN CRAB A GIRL AN GO BACK INTO THE STORE. A 2 AM THEY FOUND PEOPLE LOCKED IN A ROOM AN ONE POSABLY RAPED ANOTHER STABED AN THERE WERE NO BAD GUYS TO BE FOUND??????
WTF DID THEY DO STNAD THERE WITH THERE DICKS IN THERE HAND FOR 4 HOURS WHILE A WOMAN WAS BEIBG ASSULTED AN ANOTHER BLEADING ????? HOW THE F$%K DID THE BAD GUYS GET OUT ??????????????????????? IS THERE A BACK DOOR?????
WHAT DID THEY DO FOR AT LEAST 3 HOURS JUST STAND THERE AN MOT MAKE ANY CONTACT??????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????/ IN THE MEAN TIME THE CRIMINALS HAVE A 4 HOUR HEAD START?????? WOW JUST WOW!!!!!!
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY PEOPLE NEED TO CARRY AN WBY WE FEEL WE NEED TO BE PROTECTED . IF ID BEEN STUCK IN THAT ROOM FOR 4 HOURS AFTERT THEY LEFT WITH BLEADING VICTOMS AN WHAT NOT AN THE COPS DID NOTHING iD HAVE BEEN SWINGING ON SOME ONE WHEN I GOT OUT . JUST WOW THERE AHS TO BE MORE TO THIS STORY. WHAT GOOD DID CLOSING A ROAD TO A AIR PORT DO ??????? HOW MANY PEOPLE MISSED FLIGHTS DUE TO THIS KEYSTONE COP CICRCLE JERK. WOW.
AN MOST MALLS DONT ALLOW CARRY AN IN CALIFORNIA VERY FEW CAN EVEN GET A PERMIT UNLESS YOUR A POLITICION OR MOVIE STAR. WOW.
Welcome to Kalifornia, Now surrender your Money, your Rights, and your Intellect! Assimilation is inevitable!
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Welcome to Kalifornia, Now surrender your Money, your Rights, and your Intellect! Assimilation is inevitable!
The sorry problem is these same assholes are leaving California and taking their treasonous socialist thoughts and ways with them. Used to say -a penny for your thoughts. With these people it should be...a bullet for your thoughts! Sorry, I've seen and heard to much come out of that sorry state to much care about them. People AND politicians. Except Bellson and JRS of course!
there are a lot of good people in that state the problem is there out numbered by queers, illeagles an illegals that were made legal, tree huggers , libtards an every other nut job. My entire family is there an trust me there as pro gun as you can be. the problem is the southern part of the state like LA have so may people they control the entire state. IMO the state should be split in half
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