A standoff that lasted more than 12 hours ended when Desert Hot Springs police and Riverside County sheriff’s deputies realized the suspects they were looking for weren’t at the home they surrounded.

Officers responded at 10:55 a.m. Monday, Nov. 16, to a home in the 66300 block of Sixth Street, believing that a suspect in an assault with a deadly weapon investigation was at the home.

“Officers believed the suspect to be armed and dangerous, and barricaded within the residence,” Desert Hot Springs police officials said in a news release.

Officers “received additional information” that a second person, a suspect in a shooting that occurred last week, was also inside the home.

That’s when the Sheriff’s Department’s SWAT team was called in to assist with the situation, the news release said.

After an hours-long standstill, the SWAT team searched the home, only to realize the suspects weren’t there.

Sheriff’s Department spokesman Deputy Armando Munoz said via email that the SWAT team was assisting with the situation until 4 a.m. Tuesday. It wasn’t clear when the standoff ended and when the investigation began.

The incident remained under investigation Tuesday afternoon. Desert Hot Springs police ask that anyone with information helpful to the investigation call 760-329-2904.