COVENTRY, CT (WFSB) -
Some residents in the Forest Road area of Coventry were evacuated on Tuesday while police investigated what they called a "dangerous situation" inside a home.
Police said they received a call just before 11 a.m. from a woman who said her husband was despondent and made threatening statements towards himself.
When police arrived they were not able to make contact with the 69-year-old man inside the house.
Police set up a command post at Robertson School on Cross Street and the regional SWAT team was called to the scene.
When police entered the home around 2 p.m., they found the man dead in the basement from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police have not said what made the man so upset, but neighbors said he may have been in poor health.
The man's identity has not been released.
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