Man dies after shootout with police in South SF; 1 neighbor injured, authorities say

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KGO) -- Police in South San Francisco say a suspect is dead after a shootout with police, and a neighbor is in the hospital after gunshots rang out in a residential area. No officers were injured.

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At one point, police told people in the Winston Manor neighborhood to stay inside as they responded with the SWAT team at 300 block of Arroyo Drive.

ABC7 talked with several neighbors who heard the gunshots in this very busy residential area. A photographer in the area heard and recorded some of the gunshots.

South San Francisco police say they responded to the area after a report that one person was armed with a gun. Police say when they responded, the man began firing at them and into an occupied residence several times.

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Officers say they fired their weapons at the suspect. He was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later. Police say he was in possession of a handgun and a shotgun. A neighbor in the area was also injured and taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

"I was in the backyard barbequing and I just heard some gunshots I thought, I came in and told my husband I just heard some gunshots right now and then later on I looked outside and there was a bunch of police cars," said Joni Sperow who lives nearby.

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"Preliminary information, there was some type of dispute, we're still trying to sort out what the relationship was. It was a dispute, we have no indication it was a drive-by," said Sgt. Elena Dominguez of the South San Francisco Police Department.

Police haven't said what the dispute was about but officers said that multiple 911 calls came in about the armed individual who was later killed.