PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A man shot and seriously injured his 26-year-old granddaughter, leading to a standoff with police that ended when a house caught fire and the gunman was found dead inside.
Police sent to investigate gunshots found Angela Beyer lying on the driveway of a home shortly before midnight Tuesday and entered the house to rescue four children, ages 1, 7, 9 and 11.
Ollie B. Russell, 73, refused to leave the house and police asked neighbors to evacuate.
Fire broke out after officers fired tear gas into the house shortly before 4 a.m.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation, but police Lt. Mike Hefley said it was unlikely that the tear gas started the flames. He said the man in the house may have started it himself.
Russell was later found dead inside.
Beyer, who lived in the basement, had heard gunshots coming from Russell's bedroom on the first floor and ran upstairs to check on him, police said.
''She knocked on the door, 'Grandpa, Grandpa, are you all right?' and he apparently replied that he was having a bad dream,'' Cmdr. Derrick Foxworth said. ''Shots rang out, and he fired through the closed door and wounded her.''
Beyer was hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound in her shoulder.