Eight-hour standoff at Rancho Cordova hotel room ends peacefully, police say
Rancho Cordova police officers were engaged in a standoff with an armed man Friday afternoon but were able to resolve the situation peacefully by nightfall.
The Rancho Cordova Police Department said in a social media update just after 3 p.m. that there was a person barricaded near Zinfandel Drive and White Rock Road.
CBS 13 reported that the man was locked inside a hotel room following a 911 call from another man who was threatened at knife-point at a Best Western hotel on White Rock Road around 1 p.m.
By 6 p.m., the police department said the man was still refusing to leave the room and negotiators were working “to bring this incident to a peaceful resolution.”
As of 9 p.m. — eight hours after the initial 911 call — the police department said “The incident has come to a peaceful resolution, and everyone is safe.”
