Man With Gun Barricades Self Inside Store 
 
 A La Crescenta shopping center was locked down on Black Friday after a man with a gun barricaded himself inside a wireless store, according to the LA County Sheriff's Department. Deputies responded about 4 p.m. to a Verizon Wireless store at The Marketplace Shopping Center, located in the 2600 block of Foothill Boulevard, according to a Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station official who identified himself as Sgt. No shots were fired by sheriff’s deputies, who entered the store more than five hours after the incident began, the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. The man had ran into the store after stealing prescription drugs during an armed robbery at the Rite Aid Pharmacy in the shopping center, said Sgt. Foothill Boulevard, which had been temporarily closed between Rosemont and Raymond avenues, was reopened after the standoff ended. Sheriff’s SWAT team members and deputies from multiple stations surrounded the store as crisis negotiators and Special Enforcement Bureau deputies communicated with the man, in an effort to persuade him to surrender, officials said.
– Black Friday shoppers were evacuated yesterday after a man with a gun allegedly stole prescription drugs from a Rite Aid pharmacy, then ran into a wireless store in the same California shopping center, causing an hours-long standoff with police after which the man was found dead, KTLA reports. The suspect died "apparently by his own hand" last night, according to the LA County Sheriff's Department; authorities did not fire any shots, NBC Los Angeles reports. The man had threatened to take hostages, but the employees inside Connect Wireless in La Crescenta's Marketplace Shopping Center managed to escape.