Investigators said it began at around 8:45 p.m. on N. 10th St., near Lindley Ave.
Police described a chaotic and dangerous situation.
Officers and medics were ducking behind vehicles as they said a man fired shots at them from a house over the span of several hours.
At one point, a woman who was being held inside escaped through a second-floor window as all of this was unfolding.
"There were actually several officers underneath that window still at risk of having a person potentially fire on them attempting to help this person out of that window," said Inspector D.F. Pace.
Police said this all started when they got calls of a person with a gun and a person shot inside the home, which is described as a boarding house.
We're told the shooter and the victim rented rooms in the house and that this was possibly a continuation of an altercation earlier in the day.
Police said the man fired shots at officers and medics as they arrived on scene.
Those first responders took cover behind vehicles, and we're told some officers returned fire.
Reinforcements, including SWAT, arrived on scene and later learned the shooter was a man possibly in his 50s and that four others were inside the house, including the victim who had been shot in the arm.
Police said they used tactics to try to disorient him. They deployed tear gas and tried to persuade him to give up and also sent in a drone.
"It does look like he did shoot that drone down, so we knew we were dealing with an individual who was dangerous and we did everything we possibly could to end this standoff as safely as possible," Pace said.
Officers got the others out of the house before it all came to an end.
"We did everything we possibly could to persuade the shooter to surrender, to turn himself in and to have his day in court," Pace said. "Sadly, however, the suspect chose to end the standoff with a single gunshot wound, self-inflected."
The woman who was shot in the arm and escaped through the window is being treated for injuries from the gunshot and the fall.
Investigators are still piecing this together and are working to learn how everyone is connected and what led to it escalating to this point.
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