Less than a minute later, the man fired a round, police said. On a second audio clip, the man tells the officers they're "going to have to send a SWAT team." "'Cause I don't have no way out, so I gotta take a hostage with me," the man replies. "Why is this a hostage situation?" an officer asks. "This is a hostage situation," a man says on an audio clip police released. The whole time the woman was still on the phone with police. Police allege the man also exposed himself to the woman and sexually battered her. Police said officers near the stairwell tried to talk to the man as he held the woman at gunpoint for about 10 minutes. The suspect appears to pull the woman into what looks like a bathroom, a handgun to her temple. "Let me see your (expletive) hands! Let me see your hands!" one of the officers shouts as he starts to walk up the stairs, a flashlight in his left arm pointed upstairs and his right hand on his handgun, in the holster.īoth officers then point their handguns up the staircase.
The two officers walk into the living room, and when they approach the bottom of a stairwell, they see the intruder and the woman. The video shows the other officer using a baton to shatter a sliding glass patio door. Police said the intruder broke through a door to a room where the woman was hiding. "Sir, sir," the officer says on his body-worn camera. One of them made "verbal contact" with the woman's father, police said. Police said two officers climbed over a fence and went to the backyard. She said she was unsure how the man entered the home - she had been sleeping. About 30 minutes later, while officers were searching for the prowler, a second break-in attempt was reported on La Cuenta Drive.Ībout 2:20 a.m., the break-in was reported on Viacha Drive, when the 53-year-old victim called 911.Īccording to audio of the call, released Wednesday along with the body-worn camera video, the woman reported that the intruder ran down the stairs and was masturbating in a bathroom. when a man tried to break into a home on Rueda Drive. Saturday's crime spree began about 12:30 a.m. The hostage situation at the home on Viacha Drive prompted a San Diego police officer, who was perched on a neighboring rooftop, to shoot at the suspect after the man fired a round inside the house. According to the complaint, Trussell was convicted of robbery in North Carolina in 2009 and convicted of a "hot prowl" residential burglary in San Diego in 2018. The unit monitors inmates who may pose a danger to themselves or others.ĭeputy District Attorney Meghan Buckner said Trussell was on parole at the time of the break-ins. A prosecutor said he was in an advanced observation unit at Central Jail, but it was unclear why. He did not appear in court to enter a plea. Trussell was charged with 18 felonies and a misdemeanor in connection with the crime spree. SAN DIEGO - San Diego police on Wednesday released dramatic video that shows an intruder holding a woman hostage at gunpoint in her Tierrasanta home early Saturday while officers in and around the house try to rescue her.Īuthorities allege the suspect, Demetrius Trussell, 40, broke into four homes a day earlier and tried to break into two homes Saturday before he broke into the house where he held the woman hostage, according to police and a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in San Diego Superior Court.
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