Authorities from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) said they were “unable to solicit a response” from an unnamed barricaded man despite “several hours and many verbal attempts” to negotiate on Thursday morning. The man was later found dead “with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” according to an LASD release.

A portion of Hollywood’s nearby 101 freeway was closed after Sheriff’s deputies heard what sounded like a gunshot when they knocked on the man’s door to serve him with the eviction notice around 7 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Times. The freeway was reopened after several hours, when authorities entered the man’s apartment and found his body inside.

LASD sent a bomb squad to the residence during what they believed was an hours-long standoff with an unresponsive suspect, according to a tweet from KNX radio reporter Margaret Carrero.

Although authorities believe the man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, an LASD official told reporters that the department’s homicide bureau would be conducting an investigation into the death.

Few other details about the deceased man’s identity were available at the time of publication. Neighbor Trevor Marsh told ABC station KABC that eviction notices had been piling up on the man’s door following a rent increase.

“About a week ago, there was an eviction notice on the door,” said Marsh. “It stayed on the door … I had seen other notices, or information that they would post, just hanging on the door for days at a time … There was a rent increase a couple months ago.”

Other neighbors told Fox station KTTV that they had also seen eviction notices on the man’s door following a 7 percent increase in rent. They reportedly described their neighbor as “a quiet man in his 50s.”

Newsweek has reached out to LASD for comment.

Evictions in Los Angeles are likely to increase soon with the expiration of the city’s pandemic-era eviction rules set to end January 31. Los Angeles City Council members voted against extending the protections on Wednesday, according to LAist.

In addition, a judge last month issued an order preventing Los Angeles from enforcing portions of its COVID-19 eviction moratorium as part of a lawsuit from a group of landlords. The order is set to go into effect December 1.

A freeze on rent increases in Los Angeles is set to continue until 2024, although the freeze only applies to rent-controlled residences. California law also limits annual rent increase to 10 percent per year, but with several exceptions.

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Update 11/11/2022, 4:10 a.m. ET: The headline and first paragraph of this article were amended for clarity.