Neighbors recall bloody night in Lynn

and Matt Tempesta/The Daily ItemLYNN – Police arrested three men in connection with a drug-related home invasion that ended late Thursday night with police shooting two armed suspects who fired at officers at different times during a five-hour standoff, according to Police Chief Kevin Coppinger.One of the three suspects arrested, Sokhannara Chea, 22, of 14 Ashton St., Lynn, fired at police after they tried unsuccessfully for more than an hour to get him to surrender as he sat on the stairs of a home at 12 Wayne Avenue, Coppinger said.?All of a sudden he jumped up and ran down the stairs, firing his weapon multiple times in the direction of police,” Coppinger said. “We returned fire and he was hit.”Chea was listed in critical condition, Coppinger said Friday.Shanalynn Guerrero, who lives just a few homes down from where the standoff took place, said she was making supper Thursday night when she heard a “couple of popping noises,” but didn?t think anything about it.?But then my neighbor knocked on my door and said her husband was outside taking out the trash and he heard gunfire,” she said. “We sat there pretty much the whole five hours watching it all.”Guerrero said that shortly before the standoff ended, the neighborhood grew eerily quiet right before police shot Chea.?All of a sudden, just randomly, you heard pop, pop, pop,” Guerrero said. “It was totally unexpected. It was a very emotional scene.”Coppinger said the police negotiator stopped using the bullhorn to communicate with the suspect, but continued talking to him without it.Chea?s mother was at the scene, according to Guerrero, who said she swore at police after they shot her son, and told them “he?s human too.”The witness saw Chea come to the front door during the long and tense negotiations with police.?He was yelling at them, I?m not coming out, you?re going to shoot me,” Guerrero said. “The police officer kept saying they weren?t going to shoot him, nobody was going to get hurt, just come on out. It literally sounded like a broken record, it went on all night.”She said she was glad she lived on the third floor as the whole home invasion and standoff unfolded.?I saw the whole thing from my window,” she said. “There were four adults and a dog peeking out my window for most of the standoff.”Earlier in the evening, police shot Randell McClain, 29, of South Elm Street, after he fired at an officer who responded to the back of the house, Coppinger said.McClain surrendered to police a short time later and he was taken to Mass General Hospital, the police chief said.A third suspect, Buthchhay Chourb, 22, of 8 Minot St., Lynn, gave himself up to police immediately after they arrived at the Wayne Avenue house.The police chief praised his officers for their response to the home invasion and standoff.?I thought they did an exceptional job and I went to roll call this morning to tell them that,” Coppinger said. “You have to look at the conditions they were operating under too. When we first responded, we were in a thunder storm with heavy rain and lighting ? in a tight residential neighborhood.”None of the officers who responded to the scene were wounded by any of the gunfire, Coppinger said.The incident started when police got a 911 call early Thursday evening, saying there had been a home invasion at the address.Police responded quickly to the scene and one officer went to the front door and another to the back, where they saw McClain running upstairs to the second floor, Coppinger said.Additional officers then arrived at the house and saw Chourb climbing out a rear second floor window.?He jumped down to the ground and was immediately taken into custody at gunpoint,” Coppinger said.Police on the scene then saw McClain open a side window, but when he saw police, he retreated back into the house, then eventually saw another officer at the back of the house and fired “several rounds,” at police, Coppinger said.Police shot back and struck McClain in the arm.Coppinger arrived at