By Jason Kandel, NBCLosAngeles.com
LOS ANGELES -- Three suspects have been arrested in connection with a hostage takeover at a?Nordstrom Rack store, according to a police source.
One person was sexually assaulted and another was stabbed in the neck during?a hostage situation at a Southern California shopping center?that ended early Friday after Los Angeles Police Department SWAT members escorted at least 14 people from the building.
Gunmen at the Promenade at Howard Hughes Center in Westchester, Calif., held the hostages in a storage area before the early-morning operation, police said.
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Police received a 911 call about the hostage situation before 11 p.m. local time Thursday (2 a.m. ET) when a man said his girlfriend saw two armed men enter the store.
Authorities said they are investigating whether the assailants might have posed as customers and remained in the store after it closed at 10 p.m. (1 a.m. ET)
At about 2 a.m., SWAT members found 13 women and one man -- employees at the store -- in the storage area and restroom.
Police were expected to officially announce details of the arrests on Monday.
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