The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was involved in a standoff with law enforcement officials in the southwest part of the state.
Stanton County deputies went to a home in Johnson City around 5:15 p.m. Friday after a juvenile female reported being injured during an altercation. Deputies tried to arrest a 45-year-old man at a mobile home at 308 East Trude Avenue. The man refused to come out and began threatening deputies. Grant County deputies and the Kansas Highway Patrol Special Response Team arrived on the scene. Officers spent hours trying to talk the man into coming out of the home. The man stood in the doorway yelling at one point, and troopers fired a non-lethal round at him, but it missed. An armored vehicle was used to force open a door to the trailer, then a phone was thrown inside. A drone was sent into the trailer and it revealed that the man was injured in a back bedroom. Deputies found the man with a gunshot wound to his head, which was believed to be self-inflicted. The KBI said no law enforcement officers fired weapons during the standoff.
The man, identified as Ricky Thompson, was taken to the Stanton County Hospital, and he was pronounced dead a short time later.
