Anchorage

Police: Man's standoff with Anchorage officers ends in suicide

Anchorage police say an hours-long standoff with a man wanted on a felony warrant has ended in suicide.

The man's name is being withheld, police said.

The lead up to the death started Monday morning, shortly before 11 a.m. when officers tried to pull over a Volkswagen sedan in the area of DeBarr Road and Pine Street, according to an Anchorage Police Department release.

"The driver, who had a felony warrant for a probation violation, sped away from the officers and headed toward an apartment complex located at the 4600 block of Reka Drive," the APD release says.

He abandoned the vehicle and barricaded himself inside one of the apartments, police said.

Officers closed the roads closest to the apartment, not that far from East Anchorage High School, and then searched and evacuated the 42-unit complex of bystanders.

Early on in the search, several shots were fired by the wanted man, causing damage to the building; no persons were injured, police said.

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A SWAT team and police negotiators responded to assist, but just before 4 p.m. the suspect stepped out onto a balcony and shot himself, police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Jerzy Shedlock

Jerzy Shedlock is a former reporter for Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2017.

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