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Oro Valley Police: Barricaded man dies by suicide

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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A barricaded man in Oro Valley died by suicide Friday.

Oro Valley police responded to a call to a report of an armed man at a home on Eagle Peak Road.

Police arrived and the man fired a shot indiscriminately — not at an officer.

Pima Regional SWAT responded to the scene and the man was barricaded in the home.

The man died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

Police did not shoot at the man. No officers were injured.

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