AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Authorities are trying to determine if a rape suspect found dead in Ohio after a police standoff was fatally shot by officers or killed himself.
The standoff occurred Sunday morning in Akron. The suspect hasn’t been identified.
Akron police say officers responded around 4 a.m. to a report of a man raping a woman at gunpoint. Police later learned the woman had sent a text message that an acquaintance was trying to sexually assault her. The woman ran out of the home when officers arrived.
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Police say the man shot at officers when they tried to enter the home and that officers returned fire.
Officers fired a chemical irritant into the house four hours into the standoff and found the man fatally shot.
Two officers have been placed on leave.
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