Man found dead in Royal Oaks home following six-hour standoff

Karl Etters | Tallahassee Democrat

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Police officers found a man dead from a self-inflicted wound at a Royal Oaks home early Tuesday morning following more than six hours of trying to coerce him to come out.

At about 12:50 a.m., according to Tallahassee Police Spokesman David Northway, tactical teams entered the Forsythe Park Circle home. Inside they found the man dead.

His identity is not being released until next of kin is notified.

Throughout the night SWAT members spoke to him over a loudspeaker and at about 11:47 set of a flash bang, a loud, non-lethal device designed to create disorientation, before sending in a robot.

At about 6 p.m., the man called police threatening to harm himself and others from inside the single-family suburban home. Neighbors in the area were voluntarily evacuated.

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The Tallahassee Police SWAT team Monday night remained at a home on Forsythe Park Circle in Royal Oaks subdivision, off Forsythe Way. It is unclear exactly the nature of the incident but officers are talking over a loudspeaker to someone to come out of a home.

Armed SWAT members have surrounded the house with guns drawn.

SWAT team members were called to a home in the 4000 block of Forsythe Park Circle at about 6 p.m. by a man threatening to harm himself and others. He was refusing to come out of the single family home on the circle road.

Neighbors in the area were voluntarily evacuated. Police believe the man is alone but has that has not been confirmed according to TPD spokesman Officer David Northway. More than two dozen armed police officers are on the scene and are trying to talk to the man.

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