Standoff ends with suicide

Police went to home after report of domestic violence.

A 22-year-old South Georgia man died Sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after locking himself in his residence when police responded to a report of an early morning domestic dispute.

As deputies rushed to Henry Aguilar’s 332 Hannah Lee Drive residence in Omega at 12:10 a.m. they were told that he told dispatchers that he was threatening to harm himself. Colquitt County E-911 also received information that there had been a dispute that turned physical and that Aguilar had been drinking.

Aguilar died of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Broc+k said on Monday.

After the shot was fired officials rushed Aguilar to Colquitt Regional Medical Center, he said.

“He was pronounced (dead) in the ER at about 2:20 a.m.,” Brock said.

Aguilar’s body was taken Monday morning to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime laboratory in Macon for an autopsy, Brock said.

When Colquitt County Sheriff ’s Office deputies arrived at the residence and knocked on the front door, Aguilar reportedly told police to back off or he would shoot himself.

Aguilar stayed on the telephone for the next hour with 911, and at one point he asked that police announce on their public address system that it was safe for him to come out. Police did as Aguilar asked, sheriff ’s reports said, and repeatedly told him that no one would harm him.

During the standoff Aguilar reportedly started “counting down” while talking with 911. As police tried to get him to come out to talk to officers in the yard, police said that he began counting down and they heard a single gunshot.

At that time, officers broke through the front door and found Henry with a self-inflicted gunshot would to the head, sheriff ’s reports said.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was not requested to conduct an investigation into the death because Aguilar was not in the custody of law enforcement when his death occurred, Sheriff ’s Inv. Shawn Bostick said Monday.