LOS ANGELES: 14-Year-Old Studio City Boy in Custody After Standoff With LAPD

The incident begins when one of the boy's siblings called 911, claiming he tried to stab them with a knife.

A 14-year-old boy was taken into police custody today in Studio City after engaging the LAPD in a standoff that lasted about an hour.

The incident began when the boy's sibling called 911, claiming he had tried to stab them with a knife. According to information heard over the LAPD North Hollywood Division police scanner frequency, the caller said the boy locked himself in a room during a family dispute. When his sibling tried to unlock the door from the other side, the boy stabbed through the door with a kitchen knife, just missing his sibling's head.

Four LAPD units and a helicopter responded to the residence on the 4300 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, which is just south of the busy intersection with Moorpark Street. No firearms or other weapons were reported to be inside the apartment, according to an officer on the scene, so police surrounded the apartment building and talked to the boy through a back window in the alley.

At one point the boy demanded to speak to a friend and promised to come outside if allowed to. Through the back alley window, police allowed the boy to speak to his friend briefly, then told him if he wanted to speak to him more he would have to come out as promised.

But the boy refused to come out and was observed to have gotten on his computer, according to police communications heard on the scanner. The boy told officers through the window that he would come out in 10 minutes. 

At that point, the officer in charge radioed the officers on the scene to prepare to enter the apartment in 10 minutes if the boy didn't exit and that the boy's father had provided a key. The officers then started preparing to enter the apartment.

After 10 minutes, the officer in charge radioed that the "suspect is in custody," although it wasn't clear if the boy had opened the door and surrendered voluntarily or if officers had to enter the apartment and take him into custody by force.

"There were no injuries, and the boy who was threatening others within the home was taken into custody," said Officer Sarah Faden of the LAPD Media Relations Section, who added that the boy had not been arrested as of Monday afternoon, only that he was "in police custody."