Auburn Family Displaced By Standoff At Home Eager To Move Back In

AUBURN (CBS13) - Friday marks one week since a crime spree and manhunt left a local sheriff's deputy and a sheriff's detective dead.

A family is trying to pick up the pieces after the manhunt ended inside of their Auburn house.

"This is where they captured him when they finally gained access to the house," said Steve Larson, who owns the home.

The Larsons' once-cozy bedroom doesn't look very cozy anymore. Evidence of the massive manhunt for Marcelo Marquez is everywhere. It was here where Marquez hid out for hours last Friday, say investigators, refusing the SWAT team's orders to surrender.

"Look at this neighborhood. This doesn't happen here. Doesn't," said Larson. "It doesn't."

But it did that day -- a day that started in Sacramento with the murder of Deputy Danny Oliver. The two-county crime spree would end at 220 Belmont Drive in Auburn, but not before another deputy, Placer County Detective Michael Davis, Jr., would be fatally wounded. A third deputy was shot and two more were shot at.

"He was looking for the area of least resistance to get in, and that happened to be at the bottom of this property," said Larson.

Larson wasn't home, but his brother-in-law was when the suspect busted in.

"He escaped out of here and went over to Gold Street and found a Placer County Sheriff," said Larson.

Larson says Marquez helped himself to whatever he wanted inside the home, even alcohol.

"In that drawer was my wife's limoncello. He drank it," he said.

Eventually deputies would shoot tear gas into the house, causing extensive damage that still lingers -- even a week later.

"There's burning, sneezing. You don't spend a lot of time in there," said Larson. "I'm homeless," he added.

Marquez and his wife, Janelle Monroy, were eventually arrested and now face a list of felony charges, including murder.

For the Larsons, they're picking up the pieces of their lives, thankful it wasn't any worse.

"Stuff...stuff can be done. My family's safe, we're good," said Larson.

Larson says it will be about a week before they can start cleaning up. It could take an entire month until the family can move back in.

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