By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 02/06/2010 03:26:23 PM MST
A Taylorsville SWAT team operation ended when police discovered a man dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday night, police said.
The 52-year-old man had locked himself in a bedroom while fighting with his girlfriend in a house near 3700 West and 5100 South, said Taylorsville Police Detective Shannon Bennett.
After he locked himself inside, the girlfriend and her granddaughter, who was also in the house, heard a shot and saw a round come through a wall toward them 9 p.m., Bennett said.
"They weren't sure if he was shooting at them," Bennett said, so they left the house and called police.
SWAT team officers arrived and set up a perimeter around the house. They tried to make contact with the man, but when they got no response, they entered the room. About midnight, officers found him dead of a single gunshot wound.
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