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Update 2:05 p.m. - The suspect is identified as Kenny Lee Walker, 45.
"Deputies have the place surrounded and under containment. We're still trying to convince him to come out," Detective Tom Poulin told ECM. However the suspect has made threats to harm himself and officers. He says he's going to shoot it out with deputies and then shoot himself," said Poulin, who added that the suspect was wanted for slashing his wife's tires and is believed to be armed with a handgun.
Update 10:50 a.m. -- Lindo Lake Elementary and El Capitan High schools are on lockdown as a precaution, ECM news partner 10 News now reports.
May 7, 2012 (Lakeside) 10:40 a.m. – A suspect who wanted on a domestic violence charge has barricaded himself into a residence on Lakeshore Drive in Lakeside. The suspect is believed to be armed.
“They’re going to call a SWAT team out,” Detective Tom Poulin with the Sheriff’s substation in Santee told EC, while en route to the situation. The suspect has been wanted for “a couple of days,” he added.
ECM freelancer Dennis Richardson, who is at the scene, said that authorities are blockading the street. In addition, evacuations in a portion of Lindo Lakes Park are underway.
“They are clearing the levee area at the park and asking people to leave,” Richardson said.
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