Police in two metro Phoenix cities were investigating the shooting deaths of a man and a woman early Dec. 22.
When Phoenix police stopped a car on the 900 block of West Paseo Street at 2:25 a.m, the driver fled and barricaded himself in a nearby home. Phoenix’s SWAT unit, called the Special Assignments Unit, then arrived at the home, near Seventh Avenue and Dobbins Road, and began hostage negotiations with the man inside.
During those negotiations, the man apparently shot himself, according to a Phoenix Police Department news release. Members of the team rushed in to render aid, and Phoenix paramedics rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he died, police said…