A 55-year-old man involved in an hourslong SWAT standoff in Santee was shot and killed by three sheriff’s deputies on Sunday after he fired at deputies, striking an armored vehicle parked in front of ...

Did you know LAPD SWAT was the nation’s first SWAT team? Stood up in the late 1960’s, the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team paved the road ahead for the rest of the nation’s SWAT teams.