4-hour standoff ends after barricaded person agrees to exit house unarmed

AMMON, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - UPDATE 5:20 p.m. At approximately 12:40 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, Bonneville County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a residence near 45th E. and Sunnyside Rd. where a man was reported as being armed and suicidal.  

As deputies arrived, family members exited the residence and advised an adult male was inside and armed with a handgun.

A perimeter was set, and deputies notified nearby residences, businesses and a school of the situation.  

During this time, the Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team and negotiators were activated and responded to the scene.  

Negotiators were able to contact the male and talk with him for approximately four hours before he agreed to exit the house unarmed.  

The man was secured and is in the process of a mental health evaluation and being assisted to the appropriate services.

Deputies are in the process of opening roads and access to the area of the incident.

ORIGINAL: Bonneville County authorities are using a SWAT team to help negotiate with a single, barricaded person inside a home at Sunnyside and 45^th East.

The further nature of the incident is unknown.

As part of the effort, deputies have closed Sunnyside to traffic between Ross and the Ammon Cemetery and Crowley Road between 21^st and 49^th.  

A School Resource Officer has been assigned to nearby Mountain Valley school, but the school and its students are not threatened in any way.  Students are being directed away from the direction of the incident.