ENID, OK - At 2:21 p.m., Enid Police Department were called to the area of 1200 block of North Van Buren reporting a suspicious person.
Upon arrival, officers were told the man was climbing the nearby grain elevator. Police blocked Chestnut near the overpass to prevent oncoming traffic.
Officers went to the grain elevator and observed the man acting erratically and who threatening to jump from the top of the grain elevator. Officers at the scene negotiated with him before for several hours as he entered and exited the structures on the grain elevator. The man ultimately climbed to the top of the tower and hanged himself with a chain.
After some difficulties, officers managed to get to his location and freed him from the chain. He was unconscious but breathing. The man was secured and Enid Fire Department is working with officers to extract him from the top of the structure, as Life EMS is standing by at the scene below.
As of 5:40 p.m., extraction from the building was ongoing.
No further information is being released at this time.
