A stalker armed with an assault rifle terrorized a neighborhood in North Hollywood yesterday before surrendering to police.

Police identified the suspect as Nolan Perez, 41, who was charged with seven felony counts of making criminal threats and stalking a woman for over two weeks. They said Perez had threatened to commit violence that would result in death and great bodily injury.

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Perez, who served time in state prison, has convictions that include being a felon in possession of a firearm, negligently discharging a firearm and corporal injury to a spouse or loved one, said court records.

Perez first led Los Angeles Police Department officers on a car chase across several freeways before ditching his car and fleeing on foot through a neighborhood near Magnolia Boulevard.

As scared residents hid in their homes, Perez ran across rooftops and barricaded himself inside a single-story house on Hartsook Street. News helicopters broadcast the chase live on TV.

With LAPD officers surrounding the house, three other officers hurled tear gas inside the house Perez was hiding in. The noxious fumes forced Perez outside the house where he was arrested. Police recovered an AR-15 assault rifle from Perez.

This latest spasm of gun violence in the US comes just two days after two right wing patriot fanatics murdered two police officers in Las Vegas. The pair, identified as Jerad Miller and his wife, Amanda, later killed an armed bystander that tried to stop them.

The Millers committed suicide inside a Walmart store as police closed in to arrest them.

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