DETROIT (AP) - A gunman involved in a domestic dispute killed his girlfriend and two women who came to her aid at a Detroit house, and wounded three officers during a 14-hour standoff that ended Monday when police found the suspect dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said Monday. "The third robot was able to go into the top window and that's when we discovered the individual was deceased," First Lt. Michael Shaw, a spokesman for the agency, told reporters. Police identified the dead suspect as Lance Smith, 49, who had no criminal history and had not been in contact with police before the shooting. Police say Smith died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and had killed his girlfriend, who also was found inside a house on the city’s east side where a standoff lasting 14 hours began Sunday night. Three Detroit police officers were shot and three women were killed Sunday when a gunman opened fire, and reportedly barricaded himself in a home during the "melee" in an hourslong standoff. The suspect killed a neighbor and another woman who tried checking on a loved one just before 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Detroit police Assistant Chief Arnold Williams told reporters. During the Detroit confrontation, police reinforcements were eventually able to remove two female relatives of Smith's girlfriend who had been fatally shot and the off-duty school officer, who had injuries that were not life-threatening. (Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News)

The names of the three women weren’t released as of Monday evening. In recent years, Craig continued, “the number of these barricaded suspects has roughly doubled ... and more often than not, these individuals are mentally ill — the jail is not the place to treat them.”

“This is not a Detroit thing," he said. None of the injuries to the officers were life-threatening and all three have been or are expected to be released from the hospital soon, said police. Watch an update from Detroit police here:

Officers pinned down by gunfire for an hour

It all started about 10:30 p.m. Sunday at the home on Lamont Street near East Outer Drive and Ryan Road. He says Smith “was heard saying, ‘I will not be taken without a fight.”‘

Police says the two other women were related to Smith’s girlfriend and both were fatally shot.
A gunman kills three civilians and wounds three police officers and another civilian, then kills himself, in a standoff in Detroit.