(Updated) Manchester Hostage Suspect Shot Dead by Police Sniper After Tense Standoff

Update: 11:15 p.m.

Marianella Reyes and her two sons have been treated and released from Manchester Memorial Hospital, according to a hospital spokesman.

At 6 p.m. Thursday police were called to 13 Courtland St. where Reyes and her sons were being held by her husband, and the boys' father, Edmanuel Reyes.

Edmanuel Reyes fired multiple shots during the incident, including one that struck an officer in the shoulder wounding him. Edmanuel Reyes was shot and killed by a police sniper after he released his family at around 7:15 p.m.

Original story:

Police shot and killed an unidentified man after a tense hostage situation Thursday evening where a Manchester Police officer was also shot and wounded. 

Lt. Christopher Davis of the Manchester Police Department said that police responded to a call of a distressed man at 13 Courtland St. "waving a gun around" and arrived to shots being fired.

"They were afraid that he was shooting his family," Davis said of the man. 

Davis said police quickly established a perimeter around the residence and that an officer, who has been identified as Bill Beeler, was shot in the shoulder while trying to enter the home, but that the injury was not serious. 

Police spoke with the suspect over the telephone, and arranged for him to release his hostages, his wife and 10- and 13-year-old sons, after a tense hostage situation that lasted a little more than an hour. 

Davis said a police sniper shot and killed the suspect in the doorway of his home after the hostages had been released. 

Davis declined to identify the suspect. 

A neighbor, Elizabeth Rodriguez, said that the suspect had lived in the Courtland Street home for "about a year, a year and a half" and that there had never been a problem before. Rodriguez said she believed the suspect's first name was Ray, but that she did not know his last name.

Public records list the home, purchased in July of 2007, as owned by Edmanuel and Marianella Reyes.

Susan McCauley, who lives behind the suspect's on Westwood Street, said that she had often heard her neighbors fighting, but that she did not know them or their children.

McCauley said police officer knocked on her door and "physically removed" her from her house at about 6 p.m. By 9 p.m., McCauley still had not been allowed to return home. 

Manchester Mayor Louis Spadaccini said that he was alerted to the incident by the Fire Chief Robert Bycholski at about 6 p.m., and that he arrived on the scene shortly thereafter. Spadaccini said he was pleased with the police department's rapid response to the situation. 

"First responders did an excellent job responding quickly and evacuating neighbors from harm's way," Spadaccini said. 

Beeler was taken to Hartford Hospital where he is listed in fair condition. Beeler is the head coach of the Fermi High School football team in Enfield.

On the Fermi Football Facebook page a writer says that Bill Beeler, the officer shot during the incident who is also the Fermi High coach, was "shot in the shoulder, has been treated, and is going to be fine. He will appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers!"