At 2:45 p.m., Pasadena Police Department’s Public Information Officer, Vance Mitchell said, “One woman has been shot and she has been transported. The SWAT team has been deployed. Police are negotiating with a suspect that’s held up inside a home at the 2600 block of Marshall Street,” he said. “They are just trying to get him to come out now. We have several streets blocked off in the area at this time. Hopefully there will be an end to this very soon.”
Shortly before 5 p.m., Capt. Bud Corbett gave an official update on the situation.
“Just before noon at the residence of the suspect an altercation occurred between 34-year-old Richard Casas and his common-law wife,” he said. “It occurred at the same that two men who were acquaintances with the family were working on the roof of the house. In the course of the altercation between the suspect and the victim, the victim ran out of the house and summoned assistance from the two men on the house.”
Corbett said that one of the men went inside the residence with the victim and apparently made an attempt to reason with the suspect.
“He was described as ‘on drugs and delusional,’” he said. “The suspect fired several rounds of a handgun from inside the house. One of the rounds struck the victim; she was almost immediately brought out of the house by the man who had gone in to her aid a few minutes earlier.”
Corbett said that a SWAT standoff developed shortly after noon.
“It came to a conclusion shortly after 3 p.m.” he said. “Aside from the injury to the victim, there were no other injuries reported. The victims wounds were not life threatening. It was not a deeply serious wound, but it was a chest wound.”
Corbett said the suspect was in custody and had been charged with aggravated assault but no bond has been set.
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