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Reality star Nate Burrell, 33, fatally shot himself in the head after hours-long standoff with police as family members watched – days after he was charged with rape and assault

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>&OpenCurlyQuote;This isn’t an admission of guilt&period; I’m just tired&comma; I’ve been through so much in my life&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Nate Burrell posted on Facebook just hours before shooting himself on Oct 31<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>Burrell&comma; 33&comma; fatally shot himself in the head with a scoped rifle outside a Pizza Hut restaurant in downtown Allegan&comma; Michigan on Saturday evening<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>The tragic culmination came after a more an hour and forty minutes of negotiation with police<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>Police report that family members were at the scene when he shot himself <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>Burrell who starred for two seasons in TV reality show &&num;8217&semi;60 Days In&&num;8217&semi;&comma; had just broken up with his wife and the estranged couple were locked in a custody battle over their unborn child<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>Hours before&comma; the former Marine had posted a suicide note to Facebook&comma; writing in the 3000-word post that he &OpenCurlyQuote;can’t keep going on’<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>Records show that days prior&comma; Burrell had been charged with rape and multiple counts of assault&comma; which he appeared to be addressing in his last post<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;57494a"><strong>He was was due to be arraigned on Nov 8<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Nate-Burrell-6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358532"&sol;><figcaption>Nate Burrell&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; fatally shot himself in the head with a scoped rifle outside a Pizza Hut restaurant in downtown Allegan on Saturday evening as negotiators tried desperately to talk him down for around an hour and 40 minutes<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The circumstances of the death of a reality TV star who shot himself in the presence of witnesses has been revealed<br>&&num;8217&semi;60 Days In&&num;8217&semi; star Nate Burrell committed suicide during a standoff with police in the middle of a street on Saturday evening&comma; as police and family members watched on in horror&period;<br>Burrell&comma; 33&comma; fatally shot himself in the head with a scoped rifle outside a Pizza Hut restaurant in downtown Allegan&comma; Michigan as police negotiators failed trying desperately to talk him down for more than an hour&period;<br>Earlier that day&comma; the former Marine had posted a suicide note to Facebook&comma; writing in the 3000-word post that he &OpenCurlyQuote;can’t keep going on’ and alluded to troubled relations with his estranged wife&comma; with whom he was expecting a child&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Nate-Burrell-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"This image has an empty alt attribute&semi; its file name is Nate-Burrell-3&period;jpg"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Nate Burrell&comma; &lbrack;l-R&rsqb;&comma; had broken up with his wife as they were expecting their first child and they have been locked in a custody battle&period; Days later&comma; he was charged with rape and multiple counts of assault&period; He was due to be arraigned on November 8&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Police sources have just revealed that days prior Burrell had been charged with rape and multiple counts of assault&period; He was due to be arraigned on November 8&period; <br>Hours before the tragedy&comma; the 33-year-old had posted a disturbing message on social media that instigated a search by law enforcement&period;<br>&OpenCurlyQuote;This isn’t an admission of guilt&comma;’ he began his Facebook post&comma; published at 2&colon;26pm on October 31&period; &OpenCurlyQuote;I’m just tired&comma; I’ve been through so much in my life&comma; the pain of my situation now hurts more than I ever imagined&period; I can’t keep going on&period;’<br>Police were notified of Burrell&&num;8217&semi;s troubling post about 40 minutes after he uploaded it&comma; at 3&colon;00pm&comma; and they immediately commenced a sweep of the Midwestern town to find him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Nate-Burrells-apparent-suicide-note-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358525"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Burrell had posted a disturbing message on Facebook writing that &&num;8216&semi;this is not an admission of guilt&&num;8217&semi;&comma; which alerted police to search for him<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">After locating Burrell by pinging his cell phone&comma; officer Josh Morgan of the Allegan Police Dept&period; approached his vehicle which was parked behind some bushes&period;<br>From a distance&comma; Burrell began shaking his head at him&comma; mouthing the words &OpenCurlyQuote;no’ as the officer attempted to make contact&comma; Morgan said<br>Burrell then sped away from the cop at a &OpenCurlyQuote;moderate speed’&comma; but Morgan trailed him at a distance until the reality star came to a stop in a handicap parking spot outside a Pizza Hut restaurant&period;<br>As officer Morgan attempted to approach the car for a second time&comma; reportedly Burrell got out from Ford Escape and grabbed a black scoped rifle which he pointed under his chin&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Pizza-Hut-on-Locust-St-in-Allegan-MI-where-Nate-Burrell-shot-himself&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358529"&sol;><figcaption><strong>An allegedly suicidal Nate Burrell sped away from police only to stop at this Pizza Hut in Allegan&comma; Michigan on Saturday evening&comma; where he shot himself as cops tried for hours to talk him down<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Morgan in his report said he took cover behind his patrol car while attempting to start a dialogue with Burrell who he says was uncommunicative at first&comma; but then opened up only to tell officer Morgan he was &OpenCurlyQuote;very angry’ and was also &OpenCurlyQuote;upset with police’ because of the felony charges leveled against him days earlier&period;<br>&OpenCurlyQuote;At one point&comma; he became very angry and went on for approximately thirty to forty five seconds of cursing and calling police liars and other things&comma;’ Morgan wrote in his report&period;<br>At this point&comma; a negotiator from the Allegan County Sheriff’s Office arrived on scene&comma; but as he attempted to talk Burrell down&comma; he became frantic&comma; incessantly looking from side to side&comma; down the street and as over his shoulders as he spoke&comma; according to the police report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Nate-Burrell-14&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358546"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Throughout the fifty minute exchange with the negotiator&comma; Burrell had the gun barrel pushed against either one of his cheeks&comma; with the opposing thumb balancing on the trigger&comma; police said<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Morgan said as he attempted to approach the car for a second time&comma; Burrell got out from the driver’s side door&comma; glanced back at the officer and then grabbed a black scoped rifle&comma; before pointing it under his chin <br>For the fifty minutes of exchange between Burrell and the negotiator he had the gun barrel pushed against either one of his cheeks&comma; with the opposing thumb balancing on the trigger&comma; police said&period;<br>A number of Burrell’s family members subsequently arrived at the scene of the standoff with as officers vainly attempted to keep them at bay&period; They &OpenCurlyQuote;were refusing to comply with orders to stay back and were putting themselves in the view’ of Burrell&comma; police said<br>A SWAT team was then deployed at the scene and a new negotiator from the Sheriff’s Department took over in a bid to breach the deadlock&period;<br>But after only a few minutes&comma; at 4&colon;47pm&comma; Burrell then placed the barrel of the rifle against his left cheek and pulled the trigger&period; He fell backwards to the ground with the gun still lodged between his legs&period; <br>He was pronounced dead at the scene from a single gunshot to the head&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Nate-Burrell-13&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358545"&sol;><figcaption>Burrell’s family members arrived to the scene of the standoff&comma; claiming that cops had attempted to keep the family members away&period; Police say those relatives &OpenCurlyQuote;were refusing to comply with orders to stay back and were putting themselves in the view’ of Burrell<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In his apparent suicide note&comma; Burrell offered an &OpenCurlyQuote;apology’ to his family and friends for &OpenCurlyQuote;failing’ them&period;<br>&OpenCurlyQuote;I know a lot of you will think you could have changed my mind I ensure you&comma; you wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t&period; This isn&&num;8217&semi;t a spontaneous thing&comma;’ he wrote&period;<br>His marriage had just broken up&period; <br>Days later on October 22&comma; he was charged in a Michigan court with five felony counts&comma; including criminal sexual conduct in the first degree&comma; assault with a dangerous weapon&comma; and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder&period;<br>In his Facebook message&comma; Burrell spoke directly to his estranged wife with whom he was expecting a baby&period; The couple have been locked in a custody battle over their unborn child&period;<br>&OpenCurlyQuote;I can only imagine how bad this would all turn out&comma; all of the legal crap that would ensue after this with custody and everything else&comma;’ Burrell wrote&period; &OpenCurlyQuote;You win&excl; You have promised for weeks&comma; you will ruin my life and I had no idea who I was messing with&period; You are right&comma; I didn’t know who I was messing with&period;’<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Nate-Burrell-9&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358538" width&equals;"577" height&equals;"763"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Burrell was a veteran&comma; who served in the Marines from 2006 to 2010&comma; before joining the infantry and serving two tours of Iraq&period; In his final note Burrell wrote &&num;8216&semi;I’m done fighting the demons of my past&comma; I’m done fighting the demons of today&comma; and the demons of tomorrow<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyQuote;But we all have our day&comma; our time to go&comma; most feel like we shouldn’t decide that but I’m here to tell you I’ve made that decision and as hard as it was I am happy with my decision&period; I’m done fighting the demons of my past&comma; I’m done fighting the demons of today&comma; and the demons of tomorrow&period;<br>&OpenCurlyQuote;For those who are mourning know I&&num;8217&semi;m in such a better place&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m no longer fighting the battles that have been causing so much pain in my mind and life&period; Waking up feeling worthless&comma; lost&comma; confused&comma; and tired&sol;exhausted&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;11&sol;Nate-Burrell-8&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-358535" width&equals;"644" height&equals;"407"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Nate Burrell was a well-known reality personality of 60 Days in&period; <&sol;strong> <strong>The show followed Nate and seven others who entered jail for 2 months under assumed identities which they did of their own free will<&sol;strong>&comma; <strong>with the aim of uncovering the injustices done to inmates behind bars&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Burrell who had been working as a Fish and Wildlife Officer in Michigan at the time of his death&comma; was a veteran&comma; having served in the military as a Marine from 2006 to 2010&period; <br>He was in the infantry and served two tours of Iraq&period; <br>He was honorably discharged in 2013 and went on to receive his associate degree in criminal justice and law enforcement in 2014&period;<br>He later became a household name after appearing in two seasons 60 Days In&period; It follows people who volunteer to be imprisoned in county jail under assumed identities for two months&period; The aim of the documentary series is to uncover the injustice done to inmates behind bars&period;<br>The show followed Nate and eight others who entered jail for 2 months under assumed identities which they did of their own free will&period; He starred in seasons three and four of the series and was incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail&period;<br>According to his biography on A&amp&semi;E&comma; he was inspired to take part in the show following the arrest of his brother&comma; while he was stationed in Iraq&period;<br><br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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