Sheriff’s Deputies in Codington County Respond to Report of a Suicidal Male Subject at a Residence Near Kranzburg.

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Authorities in Codington County were kept busy for a time earlier this week by a man who barricaded himself inside a house before the subject took his own life.

On Tuesday afternoon, Codington County sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence on U.S. Highway 212 near Kranzburg for a suicidal male.

An investigation revealed the man had reportedly been involved in an altercation with another person a short time earlier.

The subject, who was identified as being a 34-year-old Watertown man, then barricaded himself inside the residence and was said to be in possession of a firearm.

Officers made several attempts to contact the man before they eventually gained entry into the home,
at which time they found the man dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.