UPDATED: SWAT Team on Site After Monrovia Man Armed with Rifle, Sword Barricades Himself in Home

A SWAT team has responded to a home in northern Monrovia where an armed and intoxicated man has barricaded himself following a domestic violence dispute, police said.

Police responded to a home in the 600 block of Shady Oaks Drive after a domestic violence disturbance was reported at about 10:15 p.m.

 "The victims of the domestic violence fled and called us," Monrovia Police Lt. Michael Lee said. "We know he’s armed."

The man initially threatened his girlfriend with a sword before threatening to retrieve a gun, according to Capt. Jim Hunt.

"He was fighting with his girlfriend and threatened her and threatened that he would go upstairs and get a gun and then we came," Hunt said.

Nearby residences were evacuated, Hunt said. Police were communicating with the man over the phone, he said.

"The problem is he's intoxicated so it's just a matter of getting him to cooperate," Hunt said. "Hopefully he sobers up and comes to his senses."

At some point the communication stopped, and police suspected that the man had "passed out drunk," Lee said. They were still waiting outside the residence after 1 a.m.

"There’s no compelling need to go racing in there so being drunk and stupid isn’t worth putting officers in jeopardy," he said.

The man has caused problems for police before when he was intoxicated, Hunt said.

Separate reports of shots being fired in the area were unrelated to the barricading incident, according to Lee. The shots were reported near Grand Avenue and have yet to be confirmed, Lee said.

"We can’t locate the source of the shots if that’s what they really were," Lee said.

No one has been reported as injured, he said.

Members of the Foothill Special Enforcement Team (F-SET) set up a police command center in the parking lot of St. Luke's Episcopal Church on California Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. Units from Irwindale, Glendora and San Marino responded, including a Glendora Police Department armored vehicle.

Check back later for more on this developing story.