Man Dies After SWAT Standoff In Woodstock

WOODSTOCK, GA — A Woodstock man was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a SWAT standoff in Cherokee County.

Deputies with the Cherokee Sheriff's Office were dispatched around 6 p.m. March 29 to a call of a man threatening to harm himself and others at a home in the 100 block of Chickasaw Run, which is off East Cherokee Drive east of Mill Creek Road.

According to the sheriff's office, the man, later identified as 64-year-old Jason Dunn, was possibly intoxicated and was shooting off his firearm in the backyard before retreating back inside the house. The Cherokee Sheriff's Office SWAT team and negotiators arrived at the location "in an attempt to make contact with Dunn to no avail," the agency added.

"Dunn did shoot several rounds at deputies, but no one was struck," sheriff's office spokesperson Sgt. Marianne Kelley said. "CSO deputies did not discharge their weapons at any time."

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When they couldn't make contact with Dunn, SWAT members threw gas canisters inside the house in a bid to get the subject to come outside. A robot was later sent inside the house after no movement inside was observed, and the Woodstock resident was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the sheriff's office said.

The Cherokee Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division is investigating the incident, which also drew the response of the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office SWAT Team.

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