Firefighter kills self at UConn campus; kids OK

GROTON, Conn. (AP) — An armed firefighter engaged police in an hours-long standoff at a University of Connecticut campus where he had been a student while dozens of high school students were there visiting, prompting authorities to lock down the campus and guard the students before he killed himself early Tuesday.

Timothy Devine, 30, shot himself near the docks on the shoreline Avery Point campus in Groton just before dawn. Poquonnock Bridge Fire Department Chief Todd Paige said the department was deeply saddened by the sudden loss.