Name withheld by police

Suicide

An officer was dispatched for a disturbance call at 10:21 a.m. While the officer spoke with the man on the front lawn of a home, the man pulled out a rifle and fired in the officer's direction. The officer took cover as the man ran toward the back of the home in the direction of a ravine. The man's mother told the officer the man believed someone was out to kill him. A Department of Public Safety helicopter provided an aerial view of the man's location and additional officers and agencies arrived to secure a perimeter around the wooded creek area the man had run toward. The man was found dead in the creek bottom at about 1:21 p.m. of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.