FOX 2 (WJBK) - Michigan State Police said a man who ran into the woods with a gun was found with a single gunshot wound and was pronounced dead.
MSP spent several hours in negotiations with a man in the area of Grange Hall and Perryville Road in Groveland Township Thursday night after being called to a report of a car crashed into a ditch.
When police arrived, the man had run into the woods and police had the area surrounded.
Unfortunately, as negotiations continued, they reported a single gunshot. A crew in an MSP helicopter saw the man on the ground and not moving.
He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead from a self-inflicted gunshot.
His name has not been released.
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