Pitman SWAT Incident Ended

PRESS RELEASE
May 5, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO
Phone: (856) 384-5617; Pager (856) 251-4736
Re.: SWAT incident ended


The Gloucester County Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team determined shortly before 10 a.m. today (5/5) that a man living at 100 East Holly Ave. in the Borough of Pitman NJ, who had recently threatened to do harm to himself, was deceased in what appears to be a suicide.

The SWAT team was activated shortly after 6 this morning after a female companion of the man believed she heard a gunshot fired inside the residence. The man had indicated to an ex-wife an intent to do harm to himself.

After neighboring homes were evacuated, members of the SWAT team confirmed the man was inside the home and was deceased. A weapon was on the floor near where the man lay.

Members of Gloucester County’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) and the Pitman Police Department assisted at the scene. Also responding were police from Glassboro and Mantua townships and the Underwood-Memorial Hospital tactical mobile intensive care unit.