A roughly four-hour SWAT standoff ended with four teenagers in custody outside of a North Long Beach home on Wednesday.
The incident began shortly after 9:05 a.m. when officers responded to a call of a person with a gun near East 65th Street and Butler Avenue, according to Long Beach police.
When they arrived, officers learned that four teenagers, including one believed to have a gun, had run into a nearby home, police said.
A SWAT team was requested to the scene at about 9:30 a.m. They continually tried to call people out of the home, and, at times, they appeared to use flashbangs, tear gas and other less-lethal weapons to try to force the group to come outside.
Eventually, people started coming out of the home one-by-one where they were taken into custody by heavily armed officers.
By 1:20 p.m., three teenage boys and one teenage girl were in custody and the house was searched, police said.
All four were taken to Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, police said.
Police said they found two replica firearms in the home.
No injuries were reported.
Editor’s note: This story was updated with more information from police.