RIVERHEAD, NY — After a tense, four-hour standoff, a man was charged with fatally shooting his wife in their Riverhead home Tuesday, police said.

According to Suffolk County Police, the incident took place on Doris Ave.; officers responded at 9:20 a.m. after receiving reports of a man carrying a handgun.

Suffolk County Police's hostage negotiation team and emergency service section officers, as well as Riverhead Police, responded to the house where Robert Brown, 65, of Riverhead, had barricaded himself, police said.