During the investigation police learned that the suspect allegedly had poured lighter fluid on the victim and repeatedly tried to light him on fire with a propane torch.
Plumsted Police and the Ocean County SWAT team are able to bring a barricade situation to a peaceful end on Letitia Drive Sunday in the New Egypt section of the township.
The Ocean County SWAT officer who shot and killed a retired New York City police officer in Little Egg Harbor, during what they described as a tense armed standoff in July 2016, will face no criminal charges.