Man shoots himself after 14-hour police standoff

<p>A Paulding County man who allegedly shot his ex-girlfriend turned the gun on himself early Sunday after holing up in her house for 14 hours in a standoff with police.</p><p>Authorities said Michael Todd Ray, 34, went to see Katie Call at her home Saturday morning and shot her in the stomach after seeing her with a new boyfriend. Call fled to a neighbor's house for help, while her boyfriend jumped out a window.</p><p>Ray remained in the house as Paulding sheriff's deputies, SWAT team members and Georgia State Patrol troopers arrived, prompting a 14-hour standoff that ended when Ray shot himself in the head.</p><p>"He's still alive," Paulding County sheriff's spokesman Lt. Sammy Goble said early Sunday, as deputies prepared to airlift Ray to the hospital.</p><p>After shooting tear gas into the house several times, authorities sent in a motion-detecting robot, which found Ray with the head wound around 12:30 a.m.</p><p>Call, who was listed in fair condition at Grady Memorial Hospital, apparently had feared her ex-boyfriend, claiming Ray stalked her and bugged her house with audio and video equipment, authorities said.</p><p>"He's a very jealous person, and she had her current boyfriend with her at the time," Goble said.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2866318)</p>

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