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Suicide reported near Blanchardville
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YORK TOWNSHIP - An unidentified male took his life Friday outside a residence on Hay Hollow Road in rural Blanchardville in York township.

Green County Sheriff Randy Roderick said, in a news release Friday, the Green County Sheriff's Department received a call at 12:52 p.m. that an adult male had a firearm and had made threats against himself.

Deputies and the Wisconsin State patrol responded to the call. Blanchardville Emergency Medical Services also responded to the scene.

Roderick said that soon after officers arrived, they heard a gunshot and located the man outside his home with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Green County Coroner's office was contacted and the incident remains under investigation.

Roderick said he wouldn't provide any more details about the incident. The Sheriff's Department did not release the name of the deceased, and the Times generally does not report the names of suicide victims.