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A WHITE TRUCK MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH THE CITY OF SACRAMENTO AS POLICE FOLLOW CAREFULLY. >> HE RAN A RED LIGHT. MAX: THE SLOW SPEECH CHA STARTED AFTER A TRAFFIC STOP AT CLOSE TO 4:00. FOR A MAN WANTED FOR US OUT OF A DEADLY WEAPON AND KIDNAPPING. THAT MAN WAS A PASSENGER IN THE TRUCK. HE WAS INVOLVED IN A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT EARLIER THAT MORNING. THE VICTIM SUFFERED A NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURY FROM A KNIFE. >> THERE ARE TWO MALES INSIDE THE TRUCK, POSSIBLY A THIRD SUSPECT. MAX: IN THE BACKSEAT, A 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL. POLICE ALREADY FEARING WHAT THIS MIGHT BECOME. >> [INAUDIBL MAX: THINGS TOOK A DRAMATIC TURN >> THE MALE IS OUT PULLING THE FEMALE. HE MAY BE HOLDING A GUN TO HER SIDE. MAX: THE MAN CHOSE THIS HOME AT RANDOM, WENT INSIDE, AND BARRICADED HIMSELF FOR HOURS, TAKING A PEOPLE HOSTAGE. BASH EIGHT -- EIGHT PEOPLE HOSTAGE. SACRAMENTO POLICE SAY SIX OF THE HOSTAGES WERE RELEASED OVERNIGHT BEFORE THE GIRL AND A WOMAN MANAGED TO ESCAPE. >> IT IS A HEROIC ACT ON HER BEHALF. SHE SAW THAT OPPORTUNITY AND TOOK IT. SHE WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE WITH THAT 13-YEAR-OLD VICTIM SAFELY, UNHARMED, AND GET AWAY FROM THE SUSPECT. MAX: POLICE PROVIDED FEW DETAILS OF WHAT IT TOOK TO GET THEM INTO SURRENDER. -- THE MAN TO SURRENDER. NONE OF THE HOSTAGES WERE HURT. >> A LOT OF THOSE TACTICAL THINGS, I CAN’T SPEAK ON. OUR SWAT AND CRISIS NEGOTIATION TEAM IS VERY WELL-TRAINED. THIS IS WHAT WE TO DO TRY TO BRING THESE INCIDENTS TO PEOPLE REVOLUTIONS. MAX: POLICE CONTINUED THEIR INVESTIGATION AS NEIGHBORS RETURNED TO THEIR

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A man who held several people hostage in a home he has no ties to was arrested after a standoff that lasted nearly a day, police said Wednesday afternoon. The man's identity has not been released. Police said he will face several charges. Two of the hostages, a 13-year-old girl and a woman, escaped the south Oak Park home Wednesday morning. When the man wasn't looking, the woman saw an opportunity to escape with the 13-year-old girl, said Sgt. Sabrina Briggs. Neither the woman nor teen was harmed, according to Briggs. It's not yet clear how the woman and the girl made their escape from the home in the 4400 block of Mello Court and ran to safety, where officers were then able to safeguard them. “We don’t know exactly what that opportunity was. I know our detectives have been talking with her to figure out exactly what moment that she saw, ‘Hey, this is an opportunity where I can get away and get this 13-year-old girl to safely, myself and her safely away from the situation unharmed,’” Briggs said. “And so, whatever it was, she took that opportunity and, you know, a very heroic act on her part.”The man, who was armed, has no ties to the home where he held the victims hostage. Sacramento police said there were eight other people inside the home with the man when the standoff started. Six of those people, some of whom are children, were released overnight by the man. How the standoff startedOfficers surrounded the Mello Court home Tuesday afternoon. SWAT and crisis negotiators responded to the scene. The incident began as a domestic disturbance call around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 5500 block of Cabrillo Way. Officers talked to a victim, who had suffered a non-life-threatening injury from a knife. After talking to the victim, officers began looking for the attacker.Around 3:55 p.m. in the 8100 block of Center Parkway, officers tried to pull over a white pickup truck with the suspect inside. Instead, the driver took off, prompting a slow-speed chase through the city.The chase ended on Mello Court around 4:20 p.m."The pursuit went throughout the city, at slow speeds, and into the county, where the pursuit ultimately terminated," Briggs said. Video from LiveCopter 3 showed the man getting out of the truck, reaching in and grabbing the teen. The then walked backward toward the home, where he entered with the teen and barricaded himself inside. *** If you or someone you know needs help, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, TTY 1-800-787-3224 or you can chat online here. ***