1 dead after police standoff in Warrensburg
A law enforcement source tells NewsChannel 13’s Mark Mullholland that the suspect took his own life Tuesday night.
The incident began when shots were fired on Warren Street. Police then raced to scene and set up a perimeter around the area, closing down a section of Warren Street. Police used military-style response vehicles during the hours long standoff.
The suspect barricaded himself inside the home before taking his own life.
Police could be heard over the loudspeaker urging the suspect to come out of the home.
Neighbors said they heard a loud bang, which sounded like a gun shot.
The Warren County Sheriff’s Office said the incident began after a man and woman had an argument, which escalated to where the man threatened to kill her and himself. She fled the scene, the man fired a shot in her direction, but she was able to escape without being hurt.
The man fired two shots in the direction of responding officers, so the Sheriff’s Office Emergency Response Team and crisis negotiators responded to the scene.
Terry Sylvester who lives on Warren Street said that him and his neighbors were forced to say inside their homes for multiple hours. Sylvester said police told him and his family it was just too dangerous to go outside.
“I was outside, like I said, cooking. And then a police officer yelled and said, hey, you got to get inside. It’s too dangerous. Then that’s when I knew the, the altitude of the situation,” Sylvester said.
The suspect’s identity has not been released yet and the Warren County Sheriff’s Office said that the incident is under investigation.
One officer tells NewsChannel 13 that the incident did not end the way police hoped.