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A standoff with an armed man at the University of Connecticut in Groton that forced the evacuation of the campus is over after the man committed suicide, according to local reports.

Police had been negotiating for hours with the man, who had crawled beneath a dock on the premises.

“As the subject was pointing the weapon towards himself and towards others,” Connecticut Police Lt. Paul Vance said, “troopers deployed less-than-lethal equipment in an effort, again, to disarm the subject. Again, it was not successful.”

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000 (Post 2161269)

They tried to distract him with bean bags?

Originally Posted by agzg (Post 2161273)

Probably non-lethal bean bag launchers like they use to disperse crowds.

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000 (Post 2161276)

I'm sure that's the case, but when I read it in the article I couldn't help thinking of hackey sacks or those little neon juggling bean bags, (and yes, I also had a quick vision of bean bag chairs). Clearly I am a child of the 80's/90's.