COEUR d'ALENE - A fugitive was found dead inside a Coeur d'Alene home following a police SWAT standoff that began late Saturday night and ended early Sunday morning.

The Coeur d'Alene Police Department reported that John David Crispin, a 37-year-old fugitive wanted for four separate crimes involving violent crimes, had barricaded himself inside his ex-wife's home in the 7000 block of N. Quincy Court.

Around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, police said, Crispin's ex-wife left her house and contacted the police. She said Crispin was in her residence, was armed with a gun and had made statements that he would not leave or cooperate with police.

Officers immediately set up a perimeter around the residence and notified nearby neighbors of the armed standoff. Officers attempted to contact Crispin by phone and bullhorn. SWAT units made of members of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office and Coeur d'Alene Police responded to the scene and also attempted to make contact with Crispin and he would not communicate with them.

At 3:30 a.m. Sunday, Crispin fired at least one round from a weapon, police said. No officers were injured. Officers returned fire. Crispin had not yet surrendered and responding agencies were still on the scene. In a 9 a.m. news release, Coeur d'Alene Police reported Crispin was found deceased inside the residence and said the multi-agency Critical Incident Task Force will take over the investigation. Police did not say how Crispin died.

Danielle Leaumont Wilcox is a resident of the Landings subdivision, living a few houses down from where the SWAT incident occurred.

"We could just see all the police and firefighters and everything out front," she said Sunday afternoon.

The babysitter of Wilcox's children alerted her about the unfolding situation Saturday night, so she raced home from work around 10:30 p.m. Wilcox said she jumped online right away to know what was happening because even though she could see the first responders through her windows as well as the police helicopter circling the neighborhood, she didn't know the situation because she was not informed by anyone working the scene. She said she understands they are busy, but she didn't know if the suspect was at large and if she and her family were in danger.

"All night, you're trying to figure out what was going on," Wilcox said. "It really upset me that no one came by to let me know what was going on. You see that much activity, you don't know if you need to have your house on lockdown or anything that's going on."

Wilcox heard the gunshots at 3:30 a.m. At that time, she and four of her children were in her bedroom.

"We were scared and concerned about everybody in the neighborhood," she said. "It's a really nice neighborhood and it's not the kind of stuff that happens in that neighborhood."

Wilcox said she does not personally know Crispin's ex-wife or Crispin.

"I had a friend who knew and dated him and she said he was a very nice man," Wilcox said.

Crispin was wanted in Benewah County for assault, battery, drugs, unlawful possession of a firearm and felony eluding, in Salt Lake City for assault with a dangerous weapon, by the US Marshals for aggravated battery, aggravated assault, attempt to injure with a weapon and eluding, and by US probation for a probation violation of felon in possession of a firearm.

He was pursued Oct. 3 by multiple agencies after firing shots at officers following an incident in Plummer earlier that day. He escaped Coeur d'Alene Tribal Police and attempted to run over an officer during a traffic stop. Police chased him for several miles until he fired shots and fled on foot into a wooded area. As a fugitive from the law, he was considered armed and dangerous.