A standoff ended peacefully this morning when a parolee surrendered to a SWAT team that surrounded his house after he became a suspect in a spousal abuse case, police say.

“He came out,” Sgt. Jeff Decker said of Richard Douglas, who gave up about 7:15 a.m.

Officers were summoned to the house along the 6600 block of Tokay Avenue about 2 a.m. by reports that Douglas’s live-in girlfriend had been beaten. Her injuries are minor, Decker said.

When police checked Douglas’s criminal record, they discovered that he was wanted for a no-bail arrest warrant that charges him with being a parolee-at-large, Decker said.

No gunshots were reported during the standoff.

—Richard Brooks
rbrooks@PE.com

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