HOSPICE PATIENT KILLS SELF AFTER SWAT STAND-OFF IN LAKESIDE

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November 23, 2011 (Lakeside) – A three hour stand-off with a SWAT team has ended with the suicide of a 75-year-old Lakeside man. The man, a hospice patient, reportedly had leukemia and had been told he had only days to live, a neighbor told 10 news.

At 12:51 today, San Diego Sheriff’s SWAT team and deputies from the Santee station responded to a report of an attempted suicide at the man’s home in the 11000 block of Morning Dove Drive. “A nurse intervened and tried to grab the gun,” Melissa Aquino at the San Diego Sheriff’s Department said. “She suffered minor injuries to her hand. She was taken to Sharp Hospital.”

The SWAT action prompted a shut-down of Crazy Horse Drive at Toyon Drive for over three hours, while an ASTREA helicopter flew overhead, making announcements to try and persuade the man to come out. But after several hours, SWAT offers threw a camera into the home and saw the patient slumped over in his wheelchair

SWAT team members entered the residence and found him dead from two self-inflicted gunshot wounds. A neighbor, John Vander Vort, identified the victim as Edward Riley, according to 10 News.

If you or someone you know is depressed or suicidal, there are resources available to help those in crisis and those who care about them. Please see the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) website at www.namisandiego.org or call NAMI San Diego at 1-800-523-5933. The County Crisis Hotline is also available 24 hours to provide help to individuals in need at 1-800-479-3339.


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