Sacramento police arrest gunman hours after standoff ends

A confrontation with a gunman in Sacramento ended hours later with the person in custody, police said.

Police identified the man as Michael Hale, 52, who will be in custody on prior felony warrants. Details have not been released on why the warrants were issued.

Crisis negotiators were with officers at T and 29th streets, where they spoke with Hale, who had a knife on him, in a tent under the Capital Freeway, Sacramento police said. His family members present there also tried to persuade him to come out.

The confrontation began around 4 p.m. and officers said they forced him out of the tent shortly before 8 p.m. using a chemical agent, leading Hale to surrender.

Members of Hale’s family told KCRA 3 the man was homeless and suffered from mental illness.

A woman who also lived in the highway underpass said officers came Friday morning to give the encampment an hour to clean out the tents, and she said Hale refused to move.

Officers closed T Street between 29th and 30th Streets, but those roads have since reopened.

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