HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - On a sunny Monday afternoon, Mountain Creek Drive is quiet with the exception of chirping birds and the occasional barking dog.

It is a typical street in the normally quiet Knox Creek subdivision, lined with small homes priced for young couples and retirees, and where on any warm, clear evening the sidewalks are busy with joggers, parents pushing strollers, and people walking dogs.

Before Saturday, the sight of two roses, one white and one red, laid on the front lawn would have been seen as a sweet Mother's Day gesture rather than a symbol of the tragedy that occurred inside 221 Mountain Creek Drive.

Before Saturday, few people knew a troubled man lived in the home with the woman he describes on Facebook as his spouse and whom he frequently referred to as "the wifey."

A crew was called to 221 Mountain Creek Drive in Knox Creek subdivision Monday to cover a front window and replace a door lock that were broken when the SWAT team made entry after a nearly five-hour standoff with a man barricaded inside. (Kelly Kazek/kkazek@al.com)

Brandon Lee Titsworth, 29, had a history of arrests in Madison County and court records show he was called back to Limestone County District Court in January after he did not comply an order to pay child support for two children he fathered with another woman, ages 6 and 9.

Saturday, the quiet of Mountain Creek Drive was shattered by the arrival of police cars, a SWAT team and HEMSI ambulances, as Titsworth barricaded himself inside the home and held police at bay for nearly five hours before shooting himself to death.

Police believe that before turning the gun on himself, Titsworth shot and killed 24-year-old Ashley Lee Spangler, who was visiting the home, and critically wounded 23-year-old Briana Leigh Perkey, who remains in Huntsville Hospital today.

Perkey, the woman Titsworth described as his wife, also posted on her Facebook page that the she was married to him.

The crime scene tape remains in place 221 Mountain Creek Drive in Knox Creek subdivision. (Kelly Kazek/kkazek@al.com)

Police spokesman Harry Hobbs said children inside the home at the time were unharmed. Some witnesses reported seeing a 2-year-old and infant being removed by police, but another said school-age children were in the home.

Neighbors in this subdivision about a mile from the Madison-Limestone County line said there was a history of domestic violence at the home. However, Hobbs could not confirm those reports.

"There were a few domestic-related calls to this address in the past but Brandon and Briana have not always lived there, other folks have lived at this address," Hobbs wrote in a press release Monday.

According to court records, Titsworth was previously arrested in 2006 and 2008 for third-degree domestic violence for assault and he pleaded guilty to the 2008 charge. He lived elsewhere in Huntsville at the time.

He also was convicted of harassment in 2004, as well as second-degree receiving stolen property in May 2009 and first-degree theft in October 2009. He pleaded guilty to the theft charge, court records show, and the receiving stolen property charge was to be sent to a grand jury. Its outcome was not reported.

For each of those arrests, Titsworth also was charged with possession of burglary tools. The May charge was later dropped and the October charge was turned over to a grand jury.

An Athens woman filed suit in Limestone County District Court in 2011 seeking child support for two children she said were fathered by Titsworth. Judge Jeanne Anderson ordered a paternity test and issued a judgment in 2012 ordering Titsworth to pay child support in an undisclosed amount. In January, Titsworth was ordered back to court for failure to pay, records show.

Police have not released updates on the case today, other than to give the victims' ages and to report that the SWAT team did not fire a single round of ammunition during the standoff.

On Saturday, Huntsville police blocked off Mountain Creek Drive in Knox Creek subdivision when Brandon Lee Titsworth barricaded himself inside his home. Police said Titsworth shot himself and two women inside the home, killing one and critically wounding another. (Kelly Kazek/kkazek@al.com)

A negotiator and family members were called to the scene to talk with Titsworth but Hobbs said police were not able to make as much headway with Titsworth as hoped.

The SWAT team made entry into the home at about 12:20 p.m. A witness reported hearing the sounds of "flashbangs," or stun grenades used by authorities to disorient a subject, inside the home at the time of entry.

Hobbs could not confirm the claim. A work crew was at the home today to nail plywood over a front window that was broken during entry and to replace the lock on the front door.

Titsworth and Spangler were found dead inside and Perkey was critically wounded, Hobbs said.

A neighbor reported the children are with grandparents.

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