Suicidal man involved in standoff broke into retirement facility, choked employee, police say

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The man involved in a standoff with Madison police at a retirement facility on the city’s west side overnight Tuesday has been arrested, officials said.

Police were called around 11:10 p.m. by a 45-year-old Madison man who was worried about people who were out to get him, officials told News 3 Now.

When officers got to the area of Schroeder Road and Struck Street, the man ran away and broke a window to get into Prairie Park Senior Apartments in the 6500 block of Schroeder Road, officials said. The man briefly choked a 38-year-old woman, who was an employee of the facility, before she got away and barricaded herself in a bathroom.

The 45-year-old man armed himself with a kitchen knife and made suicidal statements while police negotiators talked with him for almost four hours, officials said. The man was eventually taken into custody peacefully. He was taken to a hospital for self-inflicted wounds.

The identity of the man is not being released at this time, according to a release. The man did not know the woman inside the apartment. The woman was not injured.

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