Indiana police standoff with armed man ends when troopers take him into custody and find boy dead

A police standoff with an armed man ended after more than 18 hours when state troopers entered a northern Indiana home, took him into custody and found a 2-year-old boy dead inside. Indiana State Police say the 37-year-old man was being held at the Elkhart County Jail pending a charging decision by the county prosecutor. Troopers who entered the home Sunday afternoon found the boy dead. A 4-year-old girl was also found and was treated and released to a relative. Police say the standoff began Saturday night when officers conducting a welfare check on a man and his two children learned he was armed, inside the home and had “threatened to harm his children and law enforcement."