Machete stabbing suspect surrenders following overnight standoff in central Fresno, police say

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A stabbing suspect is in custody following an overnight standoff in central Fresno.

The stabbing happened just after 10 p.m. at the Crossroads Village apartment complex on Blackstone Avenue near Shields Avenue.

When officers arrived, they found a man in his early 20s with cuts to the right side of his chin. The victim told officers he was riding his scooter south on Blackstone when a woman approached him saying she got into a fight with the suspect.

The victim went over to the apartment complex's parking lot and saw the suspect, who police say is a man in his 50s, holding two machetes. An argument would lead to the victim being hit on the chin with the machete.

The suspect returned to his apartment after the stabbing. The victim was taken to Community Regional Medical Center and later released for his non-life-threatening injury.

After talking to witnesses and watching surveillance footage of the incident, police and SWAT officers surrounded the apartment and attempted to talk to the suspect for several hours.

Nearby tenants were evacuated from their apartments as a safety precaution as negotiators talked with the suspect for seven hours.

He was taken into custody just before 7 a.m. after SWAT officers fired tear gas into the apartment.

The suspect was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. The woman involved in the initial fight has not been found.

Police say the suspect's identity will be released once he's been booked into the Fresno County Jail.