ELM SPRINGS — Police are investigating after a man shot himself in his vehicle this afternoon.

Police went to a home on South Elm Springs Road for a call of a distraught man in a vehicle with a pistol, according to an Elm Springs police new release.

Officers ordered the man to drop the gun, but he turned it on himself, firing one shot, the release said.

Officers and the Tontitown Fire Marshal gave aid to the man until an ambulance arrived, the release stated. He was taken by Central EMS to Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville.

NW News on 10/05/2018