Armed elderly woman holds off deputies in hours-long standoff at California trailer park
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Authorities are trying to subdue an armed elderly woman who has barricaded herself at a Southern California mobile home park for most of the day and shot at a police robot.
Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say they were called around dawn Thursday by a woman saying she needed medical assistance.
When deputies and firefighters arrived at the mobile home park in Topanga Canyon, near Malibu, the woman waved a gun at them. They took cover and evacuated the park.
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Sheriff's officials have been working to resolve the situation all day, but the woman remains holed up after more than 12 hours.
KABC-TV reports authorities have tried tear gas and a crisis-negotiation robot. The station says the woman fired a gun at the robot, hit it with a broom and threw a cover over it.