By Nancy Dillon
New York Daily News
The man convicted of stalking actress Sandra Bullock killed himself with “multiple incised wounds” Wednesday during an hourslong standoff with Los Angeles police, authorities said.
Joshua James Corbett, 42, first “threatened to shoot officers” and then barricaded himself in his residence as police attempted to serve an arrest warrant related to an alleged violation of probation, LAPD Detective Meghan Aguilar told the New York Daily News on Thursday.
The gun threat led officers to call in a SWAT team and deploy a non-lethal gas to get Corbett out of his hiding place, she said.
“They weren’t getting any response, so at that point our SWAT team made entry into the residence. He was found with a self-inflicted wound. He had injured himself. There were no shots heard,” Detective Aguilar said. “There was no gun.”
The Los Angeles County coroner ruled the death a suicide and listed the preliminary cause of death as “multiple incised wounds,” according to a record on its website Thursday.
Coroner officials did not immediately release details on what type of weapon, if any, Corbett used on himself.
Aguilar said Corbett’s alleged probation violation related to his conviction in Bullock’s stalking case but did not involve any new threats against the actress.
“There was no new stalking crime against her or a crime against anybody,” she said Thursday.
Corbett was originally charged in 2014 for breaking into Bullock’s house while the “Gravity” actress was home.
He allegedly climbed the fence of her West Los Angeles property in the middle of the night in June 2014 and broke into the home while Bullock was there. Her 4-year-old son reportedly was not.
Bullock hid in a closet and called police, and Corbett was arrested at the scene.
He was unarmed at the time, but described himself as Bullock’s “husband” in personal paperwork outlining his obsession with the Oscar winner.
Authorities later found a cache of illegal weapons at his home, including a machine gun.
Corbett pleaded no contest to felony stalking and burglary in 2017. The weapons charges were dropped.
He was sentenced to ongoing mental health treatment and ordered to stay away from the star.
