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Oakland standoff ends with 1 dead

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August 24th, 2016 by Ric Hanson

A standoff between law enforcement and a man who threatened to shoot officers and himself, ended late last night in Oakland, with the man dead. According to multiple media reports, Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a home on Gates Street in Oakland, at around 7:45-p.m.

The area was blocked-off after a shot was fired from a home toward a deputy. The round reportedly struck a deputies’ cruiser in the bumper. Another shot was fired soon afterward. Authorities tried to make contact with the subject, but after not hearing from him for several hours, sent in a robotic search device, which returned images that revealed the man was dead on the kitchen floor, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. No other injuries were reported.

The man’s name has not yet been released. Investigators were on the scene through early this (Wednesday) morning.