Baughman remained seated in a wheelchair during negotiations, a red box on his lap with a cord running to his wrist.

At about 1:15 p.m., Baughman became extremely agitated, stood up and began to move toward the hospital emergency room.

Police fired bean bags and rubber bullets at him. Beckner said the projectiles caused the suspect to change direction, but not stop, and so the decision was made to shoot the man with a .308-caliber sniper rifle from about 30 yards away.

Beckner noted that the officers first tried to use "less-than lethal devices to subdue the suspect, which shows the officers' commitment" to attempt to end the standoff without killing the man.

The Boulder bomb squad X-rayed the red box and found cylinders, wires and batteries inside, so the package was removed using a robot. The robot carried the device to North Boulder Park, west of the hospital parking lot, where it was blown apart using a water cannon. No explosives were found, Beckner said.

Beckner said investigators do not yet understand Baughman's motive for threatening

Terrance Ashley Baughman was shot by a SWAT sniper after nonlethal devices failed to stop him. He died Monday evening.

The suspect demanded a car so that he could drive to the airport and fly to a home in Kansas.

Police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said Baughman was "well-known" at the hospital and that police contacted his doctor to help with negotiations and to assess his medical condition.

Baughman had a lengthy criminal history that included drug possession, forgery, larceny, robbery, assault and theft.

Reached at his home in Lawton, Okla., before his son died, Baughman's father, Jimmy Ray Baughman, said his son had been troubled since he was a child.

"Knowing him, I can't hold the Police Department responsible for plugging him," Baughman said. "While he never said he'd kill someone, he would give the impression he was violent."

Swanny Note: Has anyone noticed that When an animal needs to be contained the police trap and most of the time tranquilize the animal. We have a whole lot of people that have been "troubled" since a young age. The Hospital was very familiar with this "troubled" man so why didn't the police tranquilize him? Why are they surprised when having bean bags and rubber bullets shot at him, why are they surprised that he changed his direction? You know, I had a neighbor once that used to call for his dog and throw rocks at him the same time and then say "Stupid dog, he  won't come to me"

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