LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln Police Department is investigating after a man took his own life while in police custody.

Just before 8 p.m. Sunday evening, LPD says officers responded to a call of a man having a mental health crisis at a home near 54th and Meredeth streets, in southeast Lincoln.

When they arrived, officers say they found a man in his 40s trying to get into the home through a basement window. The man was taken into custody and searched by officers before he was seated in the back of a police cruiser, according to LPD.

While officers were interviewing witnesses, LPD says the man shot himself with a gun that he had in his possession. They say he was able to move his hands to the front of his body and pull the gun from inside his pants.

The man was taken to the hospita

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