Calumet Heights barricade situation ends with apparent suicide: police

A five-hour standoff with the SWAT team Tuesday ended with an apparent suicide in Calumet Heights on the South Side, according to Chicago police.

A 48-year-old woman first shot a 40-year-old man about 7:10 p.m. in the 2200 block of East 93rd Street, Chicago police said. After shooting the man, the woman barricaded herself inside the home as the SWAT team arrived to remove her.

Meanwhile, officers found the man in an alley with gunshot wounds to the leg, back and torso, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.

The standoff ended about 12:15 A.M. Wednesday when SWAT units entered the home and found the woman dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. She was alone in the home and pronounced on the scene.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not immediately confirm the death.

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