Man Dead, Baby Girl Hospitalized After Forsyth SWAT Standoff

CUMMING, GA -- A Forsyth County man killed himself and a baby girl was rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds during a standoff with law enforcement officers Monday evening.

Deputies were called to the home, on Carleen Way in the Bluff Heights subdivision, Monday afternoon by a woman who said her husband had threatened to shoot her and their young child with a handgun.

Responding Forsyth County deputies made contact by telephone with the man and asked him to come outside. He said he would do so, but never actually did. For the next three hours, deputies attempted to regain contact with the man with no success, said sheriff's office spokesman Deputy Doug Rainwater.

Some time before 8 p.m., deputies entered the home in an effort to leave a phone for the man to use to call them and to check on the baby, Rainwater said.

When they did, they heard the little girl upstairs. The deputies, along with a SWAT team medic, got to the child and found her seriously injured from an apparent gunshot wound.

The child was rushed to the hospital by ambulance with a police escort, Rainwater said. Tuesday morning, she was listed in critical condition.

Around that same time, deputies found the child's father dead with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Rainwater.

The Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit is continuing the investigation.

Photos courtesy Forsyth County Sheriff's Office