Motel Standoff in Irving Ends After Wanted Man Kills Himself

A standoff with an armed man barricaded in an Irving motel room Friday evening ended when police found the man dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The man called police around 9:30 a.m. from the Budget Inn in the 1200 block of South Loop 12, near East Shady Grove Road, and said that he was being sought by authorities from Van Zandt County.