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Long Stand-Off on Palm Coast’s Pheasant Drive Ends With Discovery of Dead Man

September 5, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

pheasant drive
At Pheasant Drive.

Last Updated: Friday, 1:46 p.m.

For nearly five hours today it had looked like a stand-off at 9 Pheasant Drive. Numerous Flagler County Sheriff’s units were arrayed around the house, including members of the SWAT team. Flagler County Fire Rescue and Palm Coast Fire Department personnel were called in.


The sheriff’s office had gotten word this morning that Federico Guevara Jr., the 52-year-old homeowner in the house, wanted to kill himself.

According to a sheriff’s incident report released Friday morning, Guevara himself had called 911 “advising that cops were blocking the roadway and that he wanted a Deputy to call him. The communications division advised the Federico refused to answer any addition questions and hung up.” The 911 center then got a call from Guevara’s ex-wife saying he’d told her he was going to kill himself. The woman then told police that while on the phone with Guevara she heard a “pop” and the line went out.

Deputies tried repeatedly to make contact with Guevara. They only got silence in return. A friend of his who’d spoken to him recently, and knew Guevara to be depressed over the loss of his wife two months ago, tried to call and text him. There was no response.

“They were calling him, they were knocking, they were making announcements,” a sheriff’s spokesperson said of the deputies. The sheriff’s office had first been dispatched at 10:22 a.m.

Guevara, a government contractor who installed high-tech surveillance equipment, was known to be heavily armed, with numerous surveillance cameras pointing outwards, and numerous cameras inside as well. The property was usually brightly lit at night, to aid better visibility for the surveillance cameras.

Shortly before three o’clock, deputies sent in a motorized robot. Guevara inside was dead, an apparent suicide by gunshot. He was found in a closet in the master bedroom. A medic pronounced him dead at 2:53 p.m.

A neighbor and friend who’d spoken to Guevara just two weeks ago recalls him being “angry with God.” He’d woken up only two months before to find his wife, Lorraine, dead of a heart attack overnight. She’d shown no overt symptoms of having had medical issues. He was depressed, but he assured his friend that he had no suicidal thoughts. The friend knew him to have a very large arsenal, including assault rifles.

Guevara had bought the house on Pheasant Drive in late 2017, but was trying to sell it and move to a house in Ormond Beach, according to his friend. “He was always willing to help out everybody,” his friend said. “You know how you’ll say he’ll give you the shirt off his back? That’s how he was.”

Palm Coast’s Engine 25, Flagler County’s Rescue 92 and a unit from the Flagler Beach Police Department were among those who’d responded to the scene. (An earlier version of this story misidentified the unit as from Bunnell.) As is routine in such instances, the scene was to be turned into a crime scene and turned over to sheriff’s detectives, and the body removed by the medical examiner for an autopsy in St. Augustine.

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  1. Jeffrey says

    September 5, 2019 at 7:50 pm

    A lot of people have mental issues in Flagler.

    Reply
  2. Notime says

    September 5, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    A lot of mental health issues in the Whole world

    Reply
  3. Brian says

    September 5, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    A lot of people all over the world have mental issues, much more issues than before, due to much more garbage and stress brought about from this darkening world.

    Reply
  4. Gary says

    September 6, 2019 at 12:26 am

    Your right flagler county has more suicides then any other county in florida..

    Reply
  5. Deb Reilly says

    September 6, 2019 at 3:57 am

    Mr. Guevara’s friend did the right thing by asking him if he was thinking about hurting himself.

    When someone is depressed, they may not admit to friends or family that they are suicidal. Asking, and letting someone know you are there for them, may open a door.
    National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
    Call 1-800-273-8255
    Available 24 hours everyday

    Reply
  6. Thomas Miller says

    September 7, 2019 at 12:09 pm

    He didn’t have a mental issue. He’d lost his wife and didn’t want to be here anymore. Why can’t you people just understand that? He didn’t hurt nobody and only took his own life. In some countries it is an honor to take your own life. Mind your business and stop trying to dictate people’s lives

    Reply
  7. Geezer says

    September 9, 2019 at 9:13 am

    Thomas Miller says it best.

    Reply
  8. nomorepitbulls says

    September 9, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    Hate to say it…but probably wouldnt hurt to take another look at the wife’s sudden death…

    Reply

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