A SWAT situation in Forsyth County ended Monday night with an infant being rushed to the hospital after the child's father apparently fatally shot himself.
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office received the initial 911 call around 3:39 p.m. It was from a woman on Carleen Court in a subdivision off of Castleberry Road, according to Deputy Doug Rainwater.
"The victim called from a neighbor's house and said her husband had threatened her and their young child with a handgun," Rainwater stated in a news release.
He said deputies were initially able to make phone contact with the husband who was inside of the home. Rainwater said the man agreed to come out, but never did.
The 11-month-old baby girl was also in the house with the husband.
The sheriff's activated its crisis negotiations team. Rainwater said authorities spent about 3 hours trying to communicate with the man, including through a family member, with no success.
"During their brief conversation, nothing threatening was said or implied by the suspect, and no shots were fired at or by any deputies."
Authorities took action around 6:30 p.m.
"The SWAT team placed a phone just inside the door, so we could communicate with the husband. At that point, they heard a baby upstairs, and they immediately went upstairs and they found the baby injured," Rainwater said.
At that point, he said, authorities took the baby out. The child suffered serious injuries from an apparent gunshot wound, according to Rainwater.
"We took care of the baby the best we could, took the baby to a local hospital with a police escort by the ambulance, and at the same time we found the husband, the father of this baby, with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound," Rainwater said.
The man was deceased.
"Deputies transported the wife to the hospital to be with her child. The child was later air lifted to an Atlanta area hospital where she is currently in critical condition," Rainwater wrote late Tuesday morning.
The sheriff's office is continuing its investigation. Authorities have not yet released any names.
