SWAT Team Arrests Man in Slaying

A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after he shot a man during an argument over a woman and then barricaded himself inside a Lancaster house with seven other people early Sunday morning, authorities said.

Darryl Jackson of Lancaster was being held without bail at the Antelope Valley sheriff’s station. The victim, Luis Montes, 39, also of Lancaster, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The men were at an unidentified woman’s house about 3:30 a.m. when they began arguing over her, said deputies, adding that her relationship to them was not clear.

Montes went to a friend’s house, borrowed a revolver, then returned to the house where he confronted Jackson, who shot him, deputies said. Jackson fled to his residence, where he barricaded himself along with another man, two women and four children, ignoring deputies’ orders to surrender. Authorities said Jackson’s relationship to the others was not known.

Deputies called in the sheriff’s special weapons team and hours later, at 8:30 a.m., Jackson walked out and was arrested without incident.