A 13-hour standoff with a gunman, who barricaded himself inside a house in Boone, N.C., ended at about 11 p.m. on Wednesday. Officials said the gunman had also died.
Two sheriff’s deputies were among four people who were killed in a 13-hour standoff in Boone, N.C., that the authorities said started on Wednesday morning when they were called to the home of a man who had not shown up for work. Deputies from the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a house at 9:44 a.m. on Wednesday after the homeowner’s employer called to report that the person had not come to work or answered any telephone calls, the Sheriff’s Office said. When the deputies went inside, two of them were shot as they descended the basement steps, said Sheriff Len Hagaman. Sheriff Hagaman told reporters it was fair to say his deputies had been ambushed by the gunman,32, who also killed his mother and stepfather. The person who called the Sheriff’s Office for a well-being check was the stepfather’s employer, Sheriff Hagaman said. The sheriff said that the gunman may have had plans to target members of the public and that his office had been warned that he had “a lot of guns.
