Veteran's Suicide through Explosion Threat Sparks Duluth Stand-Off

Veteran's Suicide through Explosion Threat Sparks Duluth Stand-Off
Wed, 07/27/2011 -

By Jacob Kittilstad and photojournalist Jeff Ernewein, FOX 21 News

DULUTH-A police perimeter shuts down a West Duluth neighborhood after a Persian Gulf veteran threatens to kill himself. His planned suicide method was explosion.

A “flash-bang” fires, a military man falls: 32-year-old Miles Froberg's suicide standoff ends with an explosion but not the one he may have planned.

"I called around,” neighbor Brett Hiemenz said, “And [I] figured out what was happening. He was planning on blowing himself up in the house."

Neighbors say they saw their streets become a warzone at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning as the Persian Gulf veteran holed up with rumored weapons at his 3400 block, West 5th Street address.

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Veteran's Suicide through Explosion Threat