El Dorado County – El Dorado Sheriff’s Department deputies and crisis negotiators helped talk an apparently suicidal man into surrendering last week in an El Dorado Hills neighborhood, after a nearly 2-hour standoff.

El Dorado Sheriff’s spokesman Bryan Golmitz said in a release that deputies responded Wednesday, Feb. 9, to the 7100 block of Hearst Drive in El Dorado Hills after a report of a suicidal subject. Upon arrival, deputies contacted the Serrano Security company, which “had been standing by with two individuals from inside the residence.”

Golmitz said according to information from the individuals, deputies determined that a 25-year-old male was alone inside the Hearst Drive residence and was “possibly suicidal.” Deputies made attempts to establish a line of “communication with the subject on multiple occasions but were unsuccessful.”

“The subject, who had armed himself with kitchen-type knives, exited and re-entered the residence on several occasions,” Golmitz said. “At one point, deputies deployed a less lethal measure” to try to subdue the man, “but it was not successful.”

Based on the circumstances of the unfolding event, the El Dorado Sheriff’s SWAT team and crisis negotiators were requested and arrived on scene. Crisis negotiators established telephone contact with the distraught man, and “after a short time were able to convince the subject to exit the residence and surrender to authorities.”

The subject was transported to Marshall Hospital for medical treatment. During the nearly two-hour stand-off, neighboring residents were requested to remain in the shelter of their homes.

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