Hours-long standoff with robbery suspect near Westport ends with apparent suicide

Kansas City police said an hours-long standoff with a robbery suspect in the attic of a house Thursday ended when the man was found dead, apparently from suicide.

Officers had arrived about 4:45 p.m. at the house in the 900 block of West 42nd Street with a warrant for the man’s arrest on a felony drug charge from Macon County.

Police were also seeking the man in connection with numerous burglaries and armed robberies in the midtown area, according to a statement from Darin Snapp, a Kansas City Police Department spokesman.

The man refused to surrender and fled into the attic of the house, police said. Negotiators were called to the scene, and a standoff lasted until shortly after 8 p.m., when officers found the man dead inside the attic.

Police said it appeared the man had killed himself. The Police Department did not immediately release the man’s name.

This story was originally published August 11, 2016 at 9:26 PM with the headline "Hours-long standoff with robbery suspect near Westport ends with apparent suicide."