An apparently suicidal Carlsbad man who holed up in a residence filled with firearms as police evacuated his neighbors and summoned a SWAT team was later found dead.
Someone called police shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday to report a suicidal man with a gun in a residential area along Whitman Way near Faraday Avenue, according to a Carlsbad Police statement. Arriving officers attempted to talk to him, but he retreated to his nearby residence.
Officers learned shortly afterward that the man had several guns in his possession. They evacuated surrounding homes and requested a SWAT response, authorities said.
SWAT personnel tried numerous times to contact the man, to no avail. They then entered the home and found the man’s body, along with multiple guns, police said in the statement.
The man’s name was withheld pending family notification.
— City News Service
