Standoff in Moorhead ends when man apparently kills himself
Began as a domestic incident
A man is dead after an armed standoff with police in Moorhead that began as a domestic incident.
Lt. Tory Jacobson says a woman who lived with the man in a third floor apartment fled just before midnight Sunday, after the man allegedly threatened her with a gun.
Officers who responded surrounded the building, evacuated other tenants and set up roadblocks in the area.
The Associated Press reports that the standoff ended around 2:30 a.m. Monday when a robot sent in by a SWAT team found the man dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A young child with the man was found unharmed.
Moorhead police have identified the man as 28-year-old Thomas Joseph Scheibel.
