An Upstate man is dead after a weekend standoff at a hotel in North Carolina. The Kings Mountain Police Department responded to the Holiday Inn Express off of I-85 around 8AM, Saturday morning.
Police went there for a welfare check and encountered 38 year old, Casey Whitman of Inman. Police say he was armed with a gun and was inside a room.
A standoff ensued and lasted for hours until late in the afternoon, that's when officers heard a gunshot from inside the room. Whitman was found dead on the scene from a self inflicted gunshot wound.
