PALMDALE — A person who compelled his means right into a Southern California house shot a girl together with her personal gun after which held her younger daughter at gunpoint earlier than surrendering to police, authorities mentioned Monday.
Erin Mauldin, 34, was arrested Sunday after he heeded orders to place down the gun in Palmdale, north of Los Angeles, in line with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division.
He was arrested on suspicion of tried homicide, assault with a lethal weapon and kidnapping. He was jailed on $1 billion bail and it wasn’t instantly whether or not he had an legal professional to talk for him.
The girl was coming into her house at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday when the person requested if he might enter as a result of somebody was chasing him, in line with the Sheriff’s Division.
When she refused, he compelled his means inside and tried to assault her with a hammer, authorities mentioned.
The girl bumped into her bed room and acquired a gun however the man overpowered her, took the weapon and shot her, authorities mentioned.
The girl apparently acquired solely a flesh wound, a neighbor who recognized herself solely as Future instructed KABC-TV.
“As soon as he shot her, he dragged her out the home and that’s how she acquired downstairs,” she mentioned. “As soon as she acquired downstairs, she was capable of get away from him.”
After the taking pictures, the gunman took the girl’s roughly 10-year-old daughter hostage, working down the road chased by her father, authorities mentioned.
The daddy backed off when the person pointed the gun at him, and when deputies arrived the person held a gun to her head earlier than obeying orders to drop the weapon, authorities mentioned.
The woman’s mom was hospitalized in steady situation.
Deputies mentioned it doesn’t seem the person knew the sufferer.