(Nodaway County) -- Nodaway County authorities responded to a "check well being" Thursday for a "possibly suicidal subject."

Nodaway County Sheriff Austin Hann in a press release says deputies responded to the incident at a rural county residence. Upon arrival, authorities say the responding deputies located the subject on the porch of the residence and observed him to be visibly upset and holding a handgun in his lap. The Sheriff's Office says after observing the gun, an approaching deputy moved to cover while continuing to engage the subject in conversation in an attempt to de-escalate the situation. Authorities say without any verbal response, the unnamed subject chambered a round into the handgun, pointed the gun at himself, and kept it there.

Hann says as more deputies arrived on sc

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