WILTON — An autopsy is scheduled on the body of a local man found in his Weld Road apartment after a nearly five-hour standoff with police Tuesday night.

A Maine State Police Tactical Team found Raymond Richard, 60, dead in an upstairs room of the Village Square apartment complex at 164 Weld Road at about 11 p.m., police Chief Heidi Wilcox said Wednesday.

At about 6 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to the apartment after they received a domestic assault complaint from a person at another location, Wilcox said. Police made contact with Richard, but he would not open the front door as requested. Instead, he went upstairs and within a few minutes police heard a single gunshot from there, Wilcox said.

She said police were told Richard intended “to shoot whoever comes through the door, if police came in, and then himself.”

The State Police Tactical Team used a robot to get into the apartment and found Richard dead, she said.

About a half dozen apartment dwellers and residents from nearby houses were moved away from the scene during the standoff and were allowed back into their homes after midnight, Wilcox said.

A portion of Weld Road, Route 156, closed to traffic.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, led by Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr., officers from the Farmington Police Department, Jay Police Department and Livermore Falls police secured the scene.

The incident remains under investigation.

Wilcox said there was a domestic complaint involving Richard in 2011.

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