(Radio Iowa) – Local and state officials are investigating the events which led to the suicide of a man involved in a standoff in Le Mars.

Le Mars Police Chief Kevin Vande Vegte says several shots were fired in a home in southeast LeMars at around 9:30-p.m., Thursday, just as officers knocked on the door to serve a search warrant. One of those shots went into a neighbor’s home and lodged in a bedroom headboard.

The officers backed-off and set up a security perimeter, and made several, failed attempts to contact the suspect. The incident came to a head at around three o’clock this (Friday) morning, when the emergency response team entered the residence and found the man — who was not identified — dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.