Standoff in Pickens County Ends With Suspect’s Suicide

A standoff ended Wednesday night after a man who was being served a search warrant opened fire on police, officials say.

Central Police Officers were serving warrants at the Heatherwood Apartments on Regency Drive for a 24-year-old suspect in relation to an ongoing investigation.

The landlord was in the process of letting them into the apartment, and the officers identified themselves, when shots were fired from inside, according to police.

No officers were hit by the gunfire, and reportedly retreated without returning fire.

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office sent in the extraction team, entered a locked room and said they found the as yet unnamed suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.