Standoff ends peacefully
<p>A Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputy holds his position at the front door of a home on Grand Tour Drive in Garwood Friday during a standoff with an armed male.</p>
GARWOOD - After a more than three-hour standoff in a residence at the corner of Grand Tour Drive and Ridgeway Lane Friday afternoon, Kootenai County Sheriff's deputies were able to take a man into custody on an involuntary hold for psychiatric treatment.
Scanner traffic indicated that the man was holed up in a "safe room" within the house and reportedly fired a gun within that room more than once, but the suspect was apparently still alive when police contacted him by telephone.
"We got a call earlier this afternoon from a concerned wife who said her distraught husband was threatening suicide," said KCSO spokesman Lt. Stu Miller. "After about three hours of talking with him, he came out of the residence and was taken to Kootenai Health on an involuntary hold for psychiatric treatment."
His name will not be released, Miller said.
Seven county patrol units and two emergency medical units arrived at the scene around 2:30 p.m. Five units were staged at the suspect's home and two more were staged about a mile away on Hudlow Drive with the man's wife.
A portion of Grand Tour Drive was closed shortly after 4 p.m., and the standoff ended about 5 p.m.