At Rest

Suicide
A standoff that began about 9 a.m. and lasted about five hours started when a relative of Ray Austin Evans called 911 saying he was going to kill his stepfather. When the first deputy arrived, Evans ran inside the RV and locked himself and a woman inside. He never came out. The woman escaped. At one point, members of the sheriff's special response team deployed gas inside the RV to try to get Evans to come out. They broke a window and used a camera to see inside the RV to locate Evans. Eventually, the camera spotted his body on the floor.
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