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Armed standoff at Asante ends peacefully Friday Apr 28, 2017 at 8:38 AM Apr 28, 2017 at 10:57 AM Ryan Pfeil Mail Tribune @RyanPfeil A three-and-a-half-hour standoff with an armed man who allegedly threatened a security guard with a gun and also threatened suicide ended peacefully this morning outside Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center. Police used a flash bang and a "stingball" grenade — a nonlethal device that deploys little rubber balls — to subdue the man, 59-year-old Donald Earl Moore Jr., of Cave Junction, Medford police said. Prior to Moore's arrival at Asante, Emergency Communications of Southern Oregon 911 dispatch center received a 3:10 a.m. call from a man claiming he was suicidal and in need of assistance, though he would not provide his name or location, a police news release said. Dispatch officials tracked the call to Valley of the Rogue State Park outside Rogue River, but Oregon State Police and Jackson County Sheriff's Office deputies were unable to find anyone. Moore arrived at the RRMC emergency room parking area at 4:17 a.m. and menaced a security guard with a gun, Medford police said in a Facebook post. Police and Jackson County Mental Health officials responded and engaged Moore in conversation, containing him to the parking lot. They identified the man and determined he had been the one who made the earlier 911 call. A SWAT team deployed the flash bang and stingballs at about 8 a.m. and took Moore into custody. He was medically cleared at the hospital and lodged in the Jackson County Jail on charges of unlawful use of a weapon, disorderly conduct and menacing, police said. He is held on $15,000 bail, according to jail officials. Asante instituted a "code silver" during the incident at the hospital, a protocol enacted whenever someone comes onto the campus threatening people with a weapon, according to hospital public information officer Lauren Van Sickle. Police closed multiple entrances around RRMC to contain the flow of people going in and out. "The one benefit we had was that it was very early in the morning," Van Sickle said. "There wasn't a lot of foot traffic." Anyone who showed up at the emergency room for care was directed to the south entrance, where they were escorted to ER by hospital personnel, Van Sickle said. "Our patients and staff were not at risk," Van Sickle said. "(Police) were spot on. They contained the situation quickly." All entrances at the hospital are back open. "Ultimately, an excellent resolution to what could have been a tragedy," said Medford police Lt. Kerry Curtis. — Reach reporter Ryan Pfeil at 541-776-4468 or [email protected]. Follow him at www.twitter.com/ryanpfeil.