SWAT standoff at Motel ends with ‘armed suspect' killed and police finding a second body inside room

A standoff outside a Garland motel on Wednesday ended in a fatal police shooting and the discovery of a second body inside the room.

On Thursday, police identified the two deceased individuals and released new details in the investigation.

According to a press release, the armed man shot and killed by a SWAT officer was Shawn Dylan Burt, 52, of Hutchins, Texas.

The second man, discovered after the standoff, has been identified as Donald Bailey Sr., 69, of Dallas, according to police.

Garland police said they were called to the Motel 6 on 12721 LBJ Freeway just before 2 p.m. Wednesday for a disturbance between motel management and a guest. Police said the motel stated that the tenant was no longer welcome and had overstayed their reservation.

Management told police the man had stopped paying for the room but was refusing to leave, according to police.

The deadly encounter happened in Room 138.

The first officers called to the motel reportedly encountered the armed suspect, who allegedly pointed his gun at the officers. The officers on scene retreated and called for backup, according to Barineau.

“It went from an actual asking them to leave, to now an actual aggravated assault against a police officer because the tenant pointed a gun at the officer," said Lt. Pedro Barineau.

Police officials said when officers tried to speak with the tenant, the man pointed a gun at officers before barricading himself inside a room for several hours. Officers retreated, took cover, evacuated nearby rooms and called for the department's SWAT officers to assist with negotiations.

Officers reportedly tried calling the phone inside the suspect's room and even sent a robot to the door with a cell phone in an effort to open a dialogue with the man.

Nothing worked, said Barineau.

"When we have a situation where someone’s barricaded, our ultimate goal is to have them come out on their own," he added. "This was the worst case. We don’t want any situation to end the way it did."

Garland police said after several failed attempts at negotiating the man's surrender, SWAT officers fired tear gas into the room to force him outside. Police said that as SWAT officers approached the room’s window, the man was shot at least once after he allegedly approached the window while holding a weapon.

“There was a couple of pops and another big loud explosion, shook the room, our alarms went off in the room and next thing, pop pop seven or 8 pops in a row,” said John Hambrick, who lives at the motel and works nearby.

When SWAT officers entered the room, they found the suspect, now identified as Shawn Burt, had been fatally wounded.

They also found the body of a second man, now identified as Bailey, in the room.

Detectives determined Bailey appeared to have died several hours earlier, police said Wednesday night.

The investigation has now revealed Bailey died from a gunshot wound and had been dead for 'several hours prior to the officer-involved shooting,' according to Thursday's press release.

"When we went inside, we did observe two people deceased. The person who had displayed the weapon at the officers and another person who, based on our observations, appeared to be dead for several hours prior to the incident," police said.

Bailey's death is being investigated as a homicide, according to police.

Barineau told NBC 5 that detectives are still looking into what, if any, relationship there was between Burt and Bailey, what may have led up to Bailey's death, and whether Burt killed him.

Hambrick tells NBC 5 he knew only knew of one man, named Shawn, staying in Room 138.

“Apparently he was living there with some other guy over there,” said Hambrick. “I didn’t know that. I thought it was just him and his dog.”

No officers were injured in the incident.

Police reportedly recovered a handgun inside the motel room.

Room 138 still shows signs of the deadly encounter, from the broken-down door and window to a clear view inside where two unmade beds are located, one covered in blood, and the television still on.

The Garland Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division continues investigating the standoff and the death of the second man found in the room.

This is Garland PD's second officer-involved shooting this year.