Man found dead after standoff in Cuyahoga Falls

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio say a man who had held a woman hostage has been found dead at the end of a nearly 12-hour standoff.

John Conley, the Cuyahoga Falls police chief, says SWAT officers who entered a home at 1:30 a.m. today found the man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Conley says the body of 33-year-old Michael Craft of nearby Akron was in an upstairs bedroom.

Police say Craft let the woman go a little over an hour earlier after holding her since before 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Police say she and Craft knew each other, but they did not immediately release her name. She was taken to a hospital to be evaluated. Police had said they did not believe she’d been physically harmed.

Conley says it’s not clear what motivated the standoff.