He was transported in an ambulance to a local hospital. A man keeps police at bay during a 12-hour standoff in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014. Neighbors were awakened by an intruder at 2:30 a.m. on A man keeps police at bay during a 12-hour standoff in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014. Neighbors were awakened by an intruder at 2:30 a.m. on South Second Street. He then fled to a nearby Victorian structure where he hid on the roof and in the attic before tear gas finally forced him out. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ( Karl Mondon ) Amazingly, the suspect endured multiple rounds of acrid, eye-burning tear gas, while members of the San Jose Police Department's emergency tactical team, known as MERGE, continuously negotiated with him in Spanish via bullhorn.
The wet weather pitched in to extinguish a potential conflagration. "We got lucky with the rain," said Lt. Rick Weger. After the man burned his shirt while sitting atop the wood shingle roof in the 900 block of South Second Street, "he continuously tried to light things on fire." For hours, a crowd gathered at a nearby corner in the Washington neighborhood, watching and pointing cellphone cameras at the gabled Victorian. Onlookers held their collective breath as the shirtless man seemed on the verge of either jumping or slipping and falling. Advertisement "C'mon kid," said one woman who declined to give here name, while others murmured, "Oh no, oh no!" The drama began about 2 a.m., when Germain Shamoun, 51, awoke to the sound of glass breaking at her home. While she dialed 911, her boyfriend, Andrew Johnson, 57, went to investigate and found a strange man in their hallway. "I talked to him, 'Come on, come on,' and walked him to the door," Johnson said. "I pushed him out."
The intruder, who appeared not to be armed, kept shouting "Call 911! Call 911," according to Shamoun and Johnson. "The officers were here within two minutes, Shamoun said, "I love them." She said the couple's surveillance camera showed a bleeding man first trying to enter through the front door, then breaking a back window. After he was escorted out of that house, the man climbed the outside rear stairs of the adjacent house and scrambled onto the roof. He broke apart the chimney and threw bricks down at cars, officers and firefighters gathered below, said neighbors awoken by the commotion.
Officers reported the man appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol and ignored commands to come down. When the morning rain began, the suspect climbed into the Victorian's attic -- some said by breaking a window. He sat on the sill, alternately swinging his legs, gesturing and leaning forward, then standing up. Nearby neighbors had been evacuated earlier, and police cordoned off the block. Residents said they were asked to either leave or stay indoors.
Police periodically fired rounds of tear gas, which stung the eyes and throats of onlookers behind police tape, half a block away and sent them fleeing even further. But the spray seemed not to faze the man, as he moved Spiderman-like from ledge to ledge, occasionally throwing down what appeared to be molding and other items from the house. Even in an area accustomed to drama, the standoff riveted and disrupted the Spartan Keys neighborhood. "We're so used to sirens, we don't even pay attention to them," said one neighbor who was barred from returning to her home and who refused to give her name.
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