A standoff with a 38-year-old man who Honolulu police had been trying to talk out of killing himself ended after officers entered the home and found him dead.

“Officers made entry into the home and found a male dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” said Michelle Yu, an HPD spokesperson.

The man contacted his 36-year-old wife while she was at work at about 7 a.m. and said he was suicidal and locked himself in the family home with their three dogs at a home on Bittern Avenue in the Kapilina Beach Homes, police said.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser is not naming the couple.

“Officers were sent to a home in Ewa shortly after 7 a.m. for a male who was reportedly armed with a firearm. Specialized Services Division officers and crisis negotiators are at the scene. Nearby homes have been evacuated,” said Yu.

“We are saddened by the loss of a community member and extend our deepest aloha and condolences to all those who are grieving today,” a Kapilina Beach Homes spokesperson said in a statement.

Kapilina Beach Homes is a gated community and would not allow a Star-Advertiser reporter access to the scene during the standoff.