After SWAT team surrounds a home and fires tear gar into it, a domestic violence and kidnapping suspect is found dead inside, deputies say. Greenville County deputies and the Sheriff’s Office SWAT team arrived at the Pine Grove Lane home around 2 p.m. Tuesday, Lt. Ryan Flood, with the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, said. Flood said deputies were attempting to serve warrants on 42-year-old Charles Eugene Van Norman. Flood said the charges against Van Norman stemmed from a domestic violence incident on Sheldon Road on Monday. Deputies said they learned Van Norman had entered a woman’s residence and threatened to kill her. Flood said Van Norman told the woman she could not leave the house and he brandished a box cutter before striking her multiple times. The woman was eventually able to escape through a window and call for help.After Van Norman went into his home on Pine Grove Lane on Tuesday, deputies tried unsuccessfully to make contact with him for several hours.Deputies then fired tear gas to try to get Van Norman to come out. When deputies went into the house at about 5 p.m., they found Van Norman dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Flood said.

After SWAT team surrounds a home and fires tear gar into it, a domestic violence and kidnapping suspect is found dead inside, deputies say.

Greenville County deputies and the Sheriff’s Office SWAT team arrived at the Pine Grove Lane home around 2 p.m. Tuesday, Lt. Ryan Flood, with the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, said.


Flood said deputies were attempting to serve warrants on 42-year-old Charles Eugene Van Norman.

Flood said the charges against Van Norman stemmed from a domestic violence incident on Sheldon Road on Monday. Deputies said they learned Van Norman had entered a woman’s residence and threatened to kill her.

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Flood said Van Norman told the woman she could not leave the house and he brandished a box cutter before striking her multiple times.

The woman was eventually able to escape through a window and call for help.

After Van Norman went into his home on Pine Grove Lane on Tuesday, deputies tried unsuccessfully to make contact with him for several hours.

Deputies then fired tear gas to try to get Van Norman to come out.

When deputies went into the house at about 5 p.m., they found Van Norman dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Flood said.