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Homicide suspect found dead after 7-hour standoff in East Germantown house

A suspect in a Frankford homicide fired shots at police Tuesday evening and barricaded himself in a house for seven hours.

Philadelphia Police SWAT unit officers behind an armored vehicle with weapons drawn during a standoff with barricaded suspect on E. Haines in the E. Germantown section of Philadelphia, Tuesday.
Philadelphia Police SWAT unit officers behind an armored vehicle with weapons drawn during a standoff with barricaded suspect on E. Haines in the E. Germantown section of Philadelphia, Tuesday.Read moreJOE KACZMAREK / For the Philadelphia Inquirer

A homicide suspect was found dead early Wednesday, seven hours after barricading himself in a house in the city's East Germantown section and firing shots at police during the standoff.

Officers entered the home about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday after hearing a gunshot in the home, Capt. Sekou Kinebrew told reporters.

The suspect was found dead inside of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. His name has not been released. There were no other injuries.

The barricade had been declared around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when the man entered a house through a rooftop skylight in the 1300 block of East Haines Street next to Martin Luther King High School.

A few minutes later officers reported that the man was firing shots at them from the house. Police reported more gunfire at 6:40 p.m.

In total, Kinebrew said, the suspect fired at officers from three locations: The roof, the front of the house and the back.

Residents on nearby blocks were instructed to stay away from windows and the sides of their property closest to the house.

The man was suspected of having been involved in the shooting death of a 25-year-old woman about 1:10 p.m. Tuesday in the 1200 block of Sanger Street in Frankford.

The woman, identified by police on Wednesday as Michelle Saint-Aude, was shot several times and was transported by police to Einstein Medical Center. She was pronounced dead there at 1:53 p.m. Tuesday.