Man reportedly commits suicide after hours-long standoff with police in La Crescenta
A standoff between a La Crescenta man and officers from the Los Angeles Police Department ended Wednesday afternoon when the man took his own life.
The man killed himself some time after 1 p.m. in the 2400 block of Harmony Place after an hours-long standoff with police. Officers had attempted to serve a warrant at the man’s home in the morning.
A spokesperson for the LAPD could not say how the man killed himself except it was from a “self-inflicted wound.”
Lt. Gary Harman, a spokesman for the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station, said the man refused to comply and barricaded himself in the home. He then told the officers he was armed, Harman added.
Authorities had been in negotiations with the man to get him to surrender peacefully before he killed himself.
According to TMZ, the man was identified as Joshua Corbett, who had been previously sentenced to five years of probation for stalking actress Sandra Bullock.
The LAPD spokesperson could not confirm if the man was in fact Corbett. The spokesperson could also not comment on why a warrant was being served at the home.
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UPDATES:
1:45 p.m.: This article was updated with information about the end of the stand-off.
This article was originally published at 11:25 a.m.
