The incident in the 600 block of West Eighth Street began as a reported domestic incident Sunday night.

An Erie man accused of threatening two females with a handgun at a westside apartment house late Sunday night kept city police officers at bay until early Monday morning by refusing to come out of the building and threatening suicide, investigators reported Monday.

Michael Rodriguez, 41, eventually surrendered and was taken to UPMC Hamot following the standoff at an apartment house in the 600 block of West Eighth Street. He was later arraigned at the hospital by Erie 3rd Ward District Judge Tom Carney, who set Rodriguez's bond at $100,000.

The standoff started on Sunday at about 10:30 p.m., when city police officers were sent to the apartment house on a reported domestic incident in which Rodriguez reportedly threatened two females with a handgun. One of the females told police that Rodriguez pointed the gun at her head, and officers soon learned that Rodriguez had threatened to kill the female and another female, according to information in Rodriguez's criminal complaint.

The two females were not reported to have been injured in the incident.

When officers attempted to contact Rodriguez on the third floor of the apartment house, he started shouting that he was going to kill himself. Officers then emptied the apartment house of the other residents, according to the complaint.

Rodriguez remained barricaded for over two hours, ignoring commands to come out and "shouting obscenities and suicidal threats," police wrote in the complaint.

Rodriguez was eventually taken into custody shortly before 1 a.m. Monday and was taken to the hospital, police reported.

Investigators returned to the apartment house on Monday morning and recovered a gun, Erie police Deputy Chief Mike Nolan said.

Rodriguez faces felony counts of person not to possess a firearm and terroristic threats and misdemeanor counts of possessing an instrument of crime, simple assault and disorderly conduct.

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