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A terrifying police video shows a home intruder holding a gun to a woman’s head following an assault case.

San Diego

A terrifying police video shows a home intruder holding a gun to a woman’s head following an assault case.

A terrifying police bodycam video shows a nearly naked man holding a woman hostage at gunpoint after allegedly breaking into her San Diego home and assaulting her.

According to the Times of San Diego, Demetrius Trussell, a 40-year-old parolee, allegedly broke into four other homes before breaking into the 53-year-old woman’s residence on Viacha Drive, where she barricaded herself with her father on Saturday.

In the early hours of the morning, the woman called 911 for help.

Police released audio of her 911 call along with the terrifying video of the armed intruder breaking into her home while she was sleeping.

The officer who responded to the call made “verbal contact” with the woman’s father before breaking into her room and screamed.

“Show me your hands! “Let me see your hands!” an officer yells, pointing a flashlight at the suspect.

He and his partner then point their guns up the staircase as the man pulls the victim into what appears to be a bathroom — holding a gun to her head for several minutes.

“Gun! Gun!” the officers scream.

“This is a hostage situation. We have a Mexican standoff,” the man is heard saying in an audio clip, a reference to an armed confrontation between multiple parties that no one can win.

“Why is this a hostage situation?” a cop asks.

“’Cause I don’t have no way out, so I gotta take a hostage with me,” the man answers.

“No, no you don’t,” the officer says.

The man then says cops are “going to have to send a SWAT team.”

“And then what?” an officer asks.

“I want you to back out … before I shoot her,” the hostage-taker says. “I’m going to shoot her in the kneecap.”

Seconds later, the man fires his gun. The woman says it went off accidentally and that she was not hurt.

The officer fired multiple rounds at the suspect after the gun went off inside the house, police said.

Officials say neither the hostages nor the suspect were hurt.

The Times of San Diego reported that Trussell was charged with 18 felonies, including hot prowl burglary, false imprisonment with a hostage, negligent discharge of a firearm, possession of a stolen vehicle, indecent exposure, physical assault, and assault with a deadly weapon.