A man believed to have shot another man and taken a woman from her car Saturday night in Westbrook shot himself to death Sunday morning as a state trooper prepared to approach him in a car parked along Route 154 in Essex, state police said.
An autopsy was to be conducted today by the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
According to Lt. J. Paul Vance, a state police spokesman, the trooper located the man in his car around 9 a.m. As the trooper got out of his cruiser to approach him, the man grabbed a gun he had in his car and shot himself, Vance said.
The man's identity was being withheld pending notification of his next of kin.
The suicide was the last in a series of events that began around 6:45 Saturday night when state police at Troop F in Westbrook got a 911 call from a Subway sandwich shop on South Main Street (Route 1) in Westbrook. The caller reported that an apparent shooting victim had entered the shop seeking help.
The victim, whose name also was withheld, was treated at the scene and taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. He was reported to be in stable condition Sunday, according to Vance.
Soon after the emergency at the Subway shop, state police received another 911 call from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend had shot her current boyfriend in a car in Westbrook and that the ex-boyfriend had taken her from the car, Vance said. The woman told police she managed to escape from her ex-boyfriend in Essex.
Troopers located the woman, who was uninjured, Vance said. It was her ex-boyfriend who shot himself Sunday morning.
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