A suicidal man shot himself in the chest and was taken to a Joplin hospital shortly before 6 a.m. today following a nearly six-hour standoff with Joplin Police Department SWAT outside of Rumors Cocktail Lounge at 1825 W. 7th.
As shown in the accompanying video from Shannon Becker of Joplin News First/KODE/KSN, the man barricaded himself in his pickup while police officers tried to talk him down.
As Becker notes, the video was not broadcast until after the situation was over.
As usual, his spot news coverage has provided the Joplin audience (and my guess an audience that reaches much further) a look into news they are normally not accustomed to getting.
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