UPDATE: Suspect Surrenders in Northridge Slaying

A man suspected of gunning down his girlfriend of many years surrendered to Los Angeles police SWAT officers early Friday to end a nightlong standoff in Northridge.

The man, described as being in his early 40s, surrendered shortly after 5 a.m. and was transported to a hospital to be treated for what may have been a self-inflicted wound to the face, police said.

Officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in the area of Kenya Street and Baton Rouge Avenue around 12:30 a.m. found the body of a woman in front of a residence, said Capt. Ivan Minsal of the LAPD's Devonshire Station. Across the street, a man holed up in a home and refused to come out, prompting a SWAT response and the evacuation of residents in a two-block radius, he said.

Crisis negotiators established telephone contact with the man, trying to get him to surrender, the captain said.

The victim, who had been shot, was in her 50s and had been the suspect's girlfriend for a number of years, said Lt. Andy Neiman, an LAPD spokesman, adding the two had no children.

Scores of area residents had to stay away from their homes until investigators completed their work at the scene, police said.

-- City News Service

Earlier story:

A man surrendered Friday morning after barricading himself inside a Northridge home near where a woman's body was found, police said.

Officers responding around 12:30 a.m. to a domestic disturbance call in the area of Kenya Street and Baton Rouge Avenue found the body of a woman in front of a residence, said Capt. Ivan Minsal of the Los Angeles Police Department's Devonshire Station.

Across the street, a man holed up in a home and refused orders to come out, prompting a SWAT response and the evacuation of residents in a two-block radius, Minsal said.

Crisis negotiators in telephone contact with the man convinced him to surrender, said the captain.

The dead woman suffered gunshot wounds, he said.

-- City News Service