SAN JOSE — Shots from a man’s apparent suicide inside an Almaden home spurred a police callout and the temporary evacuation of neighbors before police cleared the scene of any public threat, authorities said.

San Jose police were called to a home in the 1100 block of Carlsbad Drive about 10:40 a.m. Monday ﻿after a report of a gunshot, spokeswoman Sgt. Heather Randol said. Responding officers, including the MERGE (SWAT) unit, looked into the home and saw a man with a gun in his hand.

Neighboring homes were evacuated as a precaution while officers tried to communicate with the man inside for upward of four hours. During that period, a second gunshot was heard. Police entered the home and at 2:50 p.m. pronounced the occupant dead at the scene.

No one else was believed to have been inside the home with the man, whose identity was still being sought by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office as of Tuesday morning.

This newspaper usually does not identify people who kill themselves or write about circumstances connected to suicide, except when incidents occur in a public manner.