Builder Doukoullos found dead at Hermosa Strand home following barricade suspect’s arrest [UPDATE]
https://admin.easyreadernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HBPD-Strand-Barricade-video.mp4 by Kevin Cody “Eleanor, come out with your hands up. This has been going on long enough,” a police officer called out over a bullhorn in front of the home of Demetrius Doukoullos, 92, in the 500 block of The Strand, in Hermosa Beach. The officer was a crisis negotiator with the Hawthorne/Hermosa Beach Police SWAT team. The SWAT team had been called to the Strand triplex shortly after noon on Saturday, March 14, accompanied by the Hawthorne Police Department’s BearCat armored vehicle. Residents who saw the BearCat rumbling down Hermosa Avenue thought it was coming from that morning’s annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Hermosa Police seek to convince a suspected Strand home intruder to come outside. The officer at right holds a non lethal 40 mm launcher. The crisis negotiators had been on the phone with Eleanor, who had barricaded herself inside Doukoullos’ home, on the bottom floor of the triplex, for almost seven hours. It was warm and sunny when the SWAT team arrived. Then a thick fog rolled in. It was almost 8 p.m. and dark when the crisis negotiators finally gave up talking to Eleanor by…
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