A man threatening to take his own life with a gun prompted a shelter-in-place order in a Wallingford neighborhood late Friday night.
Police responded to a home on Perkins Drive just before 10 p.m. The road was closed for several hours into Saturday morning.
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According to police, there were three other people inside the home with the despondent man. They were taken out of the home through a second story window, police said.
Residents were asked to stay in their homes and away from their windows around 1 a.m. Non-residents were asked to avoid the area.
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The man eventually surrendered peacefully around 10:30 a.m. and taken to the hospital for an evaluation, according to police. He was later charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
The shelter-in-place order was lifted after he was taken into custody.
