WILLOUGHBY, Ohio — An area on Lost Nation Road in Willoughby was closed off in response to what police are calling a "situation."
Around 12:30 p.m., Willoughby Police officers responded to the 2800 block of Lost Nation Road to help a Lake County Sheriff's Deputy who was trying to make contact with a 70-year-old woman after a domestic dispute, police said.
According to police, the woman pulled out a gun and threatened to hurt herself and the deputy.
Officers tried to negotiate with the woman, but she continued to threaten to hurt herself or anyone who entered the back bedroom, which she had closed herself in, police said.
Our reporter on scene saw police with long guns and gas masks around a house near Grant Elementary school.
The 70-year-old woman eventually took her own life, police said.
Just after 3 p.m., medics were seen going up to the home, and then shortly after, a woman in a coroner's jacket went up to the house.
Officers began clearing the scene shortly after. At 5 p.m., the last of the police vehicles left.
Parent pickup at the nearby Grant Elementary School was not affected, and police said there was no active threat at the school.
