Residents in 36 town homes in Mendota Heights were kept out of their homes late Wednesday night while police tried to negotiate with man who reportedly was armed with a gun.
The incident ended when the man's body was found inside the home, an apparent suicide, according to news media reports.
The man's girlfriend called police about 4:30 p.m. to report a physical domestic dispute at the home on the 2400 block of Lexington Av. and told the emergency dispatcher that the man was going to get a gun, Mendota Police Chief Mike Aschenbrener said. The woman left the house with a small child.
Aschenbrener said the man called 911 and then hung up. Police evacuated the neighbors, surrounded the house and have tried unsuccessfully to contact the man throughout the evening, Aschenbrener said.
Around midnight, police sent a remote-controlled camera into the house and discovered the man's body, according to television news reports. Police determined that he died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the reports said.
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