Standoff ends with man on roof of Huntington Park home in custody after reports of shots fired

HUNTINGTON PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- Authorities were involved in a standoff with a man who was refusing to come down from the roof of a Huntington Park home Monday morning.

Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded to the home on Santa Fe Avenue around 5 a.m. after receiving reports of a man firing shots into the air. Nobody was believed to have been hit by gunfire, but the department's Special Enforcement Bureau in a tweet described the man as an "active shooter."

AIR7 HD was over the scene where an apparent handgun could be seen on the front lawn of the home.

By 7:45 a.m., a SWAT team made it onto the roof and took the man into custody.

Authorities were involved in a standoff with a man who was refusing to come down from the roof of a Huntington Park home Monday morning.