LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man is dead after a domestic disturbance ended in a suicide in Las Vegas, police said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police say a caller reported her adult son had threatened her with a handgun and was destroying items in the residence Saturday morning.
As officers approached the home, they say the man exited and began walking away.
He then pulled a handgun from his pocket and fired two rounds into the air.
Police say the man jumped a fence into a backyard and fired three more rounds.
He then sat down on a couch in the backyard and pointed the firearm at his head.
SWAT team crisis negotiators spent more than 4 ½ hours trying to persuade the man to surrender peacefully before they say he killed himself.
The name and age of the man weren’t immediately released.
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