Domestic Violence Suspect Arrested In Palo Alto After 29 Hours

PALO ALTO, CA — Officers safely resolved a 29-hour standoff, bringing an end to a domestic violence call on Friday in which a suspect identified as 29-year-old Adam Allen Smith armed with a handgun barricaded himself in the 300 block of Tennessee Lane, the Palo Alto Police Department reported at 2:44 p.m. Saturday.

The caller said that two women had locked themselves in a bedroom away from the suspect. Public safety dispatchers instructed the women to climb out the bedroom window and meet responding officers outside, which they did. Personnel from the Palo Alto Fire Department treated the victim, who had sustained visible injuries to her neck, and released her at the scene.

The suspect remained locked inside the home and responding officers could see him pacing and holding the handgun. SWAT was brought in and a robot was dispatched to the home, but Smith fired at the device, damaging it.

No one else was inside the home. The scene was contained, and there was no danger to the community.

Smith was booked into Santa Clara County Jail on a slew of charges ranging from domestic abuse and resisting arrest to owning a gun without registering it and damaging police property, referring to the robot.