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A SWAT situation in northeast Albuquerque ended with the suspect killing himself, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department said.

Around 6:45 p.m. Friday officers responded to a domestic violence incident at the Spain Garden Apartments near Spain and Wyoming, officer Tanner Tixier said.

Police arrived after a woman called and said her boyfriend pointed a gun at her, officer Simon Drobik said.

A man with a gun barricaded himself inside of his apartment, Tixier said.

Tixier said that SWAT and crisis negotiators arrived on scene and attempted to negotiate with the man inside.

Rachael Dunn identified the man as her brother, 36-year-old Warren Seelye.

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Dunn told the Journal that Seelye, who was a veteran and suffered from PTSD, had been arguing with his girlfriend Friday night and asked Dunn to call the police.

“I was trying to get him out of the house,” Dunn, who lives in Cloudcroft, said.

She said police dispatch told her that officers were “already on their way” when she called and doesn’t know what happened next.

Dunn said the police have told her they are investigating the incident but gave no other details.

When officers entered the apartment a man with “an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound,” Drobik said.