the initial report that they had was someone with a high-powered rifle was shooting down at them. and you can see both from the footage we ve seen on tv as well as our photographs they re take taking all precautions. they have snipers across the roof. the chief of police is coming out to make sure officers are safe and deployed properly. they ve called in help from the county sheriff s department. it seems like a major response. i m looking at a picture on your san diego union trib website now of a sniper on a nearby rooftop. tom, stay with me. let me just bring you in. again, i think tom brought up a great point. we re being really careful as well. this is an active situation. we don t want to give away what police are doing to assuage this individual to peacefully give up. but what are police doing to try to end this? well, the one thing that s interesting, i think the initial call was a domestic disturbance.
cnn law enforcement analyst art roderick. thank you. tom mallory, our public safely editor and online news editor at the san diego union tribune. tom, we were watching a news report from an affiliate reporter saying as long as she s been at that apartment there have been consistent gunshots. is that what you all are hearing? that this has not stopped? yes. people we re interviewing in the neighborhood are hearing repeated rounds of shots. one person said 20 or 30 rounds in a few minutes. one report had about 30 shots fired just as police were arriving. for people who aren t as familiar with san diego, can you just walk us through we re talking bankers hill or little italy, that s just up the hill from the airport, correct? exactly. it s right between balboa park and the airport. airplanes arriving fly directly over this street. people familiar with san diego know it s a discount airport.
that s right. is this a hostage situation or barricade situation? each one is obviously treated differently. now, it sounds like he s got the advantage of being on high ground. you re right, they re putting snipers on alternate high ground probably across the street and areas where they can view the rooftops. but if he s got a high-powered rifle and he s up in the high ground area, then obviously you ve got situations where you want to maintain an inner perimeter but you also have to make sure you re evacuating or trying to get people out of the media. because with a high-powered rifle, these rounds can go right through an apartment building wall. tom, let me pivot back to you. do you know any more we know the call came in right around 9:00 your time for that domestic violence situation. do you know any more if there is someone nels that apartment? i do know that the woman who was bleed to be in the apartment is reported safely in police custody. they got her out. i do not th
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