Coroner Identifies Woman Shot to Death Before Northridge Stand-off

The coroner's office Sunday released the name of the woman shot to death in Northridge by her boyfriend, who then held the Los
Angeles Police SWAT team at bay for more than four hours.

The shooting victim was Risa Suggs, 52, of Porter Ranch, said coroner's
Investigator Kristy McCracken.
  
The man suspected of gunning down his girlfriend of many years surrendered to Los Angeles police SWAT officers at 5 a.m. Friday, after a 4 1/2-
hour standoff, and was transported to a hospital to be treated for what may
have been a self-inflicted wound to the face, police said.

Officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in the area of Kenya
Street and Baton Rouge Avenue around 12:30 a.m. found the body of a woman in front of a residence, said Capt. Ivan Minsal of the LAPD's Devonshire Station.
Across the street, a man was holed up in a home and refused to come out,
prompting a SWAT response and the evacuation of residents in a two-block
radius, he said.

Crisis negotiators established telephone contact with the man, trying to
get him to surrender, the captain said. The victim had been the suspect's girlfriend for a number of years, said Lt. Andy Neiman, an LAPD spokesman, adding the two had no children.