LAPD in standoff with Hollywood shooting suspect

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Police shut down two blocks of Hollywood Boulevard -- in the heart of Hollywood's tourist district -- on Tuesday morning as they dealt with a barricaded suspect, they said.

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department, including members of a SWAT team, were trying to convince the suspect to surrender after finding a woman dead with gunshot wounds, police spokeswoman Norma Eisenman said.

Authorities responded to a call about shots being fired in an apartment building near Hollywood's Walk of Fame and found the dead woman, who was about 25, police said.

The suspect is barricaded in the building, Eisenman said.