A man barricaded in the bathroom of a Goleta business apparently killed himself after robbing a bank blocks away. He'd flashed a handgun at a teller in the Rabobank on the 5900 block of Calle Real around 10:45 a.m. on Friday and passed a note demanding cash. He was seen headed northbound in a sedan described as a maroon Nissan.
As a helicopter circled overhead and officers from California Highway Patrol, UCSB Police, and Sheriff's deputies began stopping cars that matched the description, dispatch got a call at 12:25 p.m. from a small business on the 100 block of Carlo Drive. A man had taken off his clothes and gone into their bathroom, the caller said.
Officers evacuated about 15 people from the building and worked with a canine and handler to find the suspect. The man — white, in his thirties — was found dead in the bathroom of what the Sheriff's Office calls a "self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head." A car matching the description was found in the parking lot.