After double killing, father kills himself, police say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNN) -- A suspect in the shooting deaths Friday of the mother and maternal gradmother of his 3-year-old daughter shot and killed himself Friday night after a three-hour standoff with police. Michael Angelo Hill, 45, shot Tressa Fisher, 30, and her mother, Thelma Fisher, 62, in a parking lot Friday morning outside the Juvenile Justice Center following a hearing in which the father was granted broader visitation rights, said police spokesman Don Aaron.

"He had a weapon in his car, met the mother and grandmother in the parking lot and ... he killed both of the individuals," said Tim Adgent, administrator for Juvenile Court. "He shot the grandmother first, chased the mother (across the lot) and shot her, emptying his gun. He then reloaded, went over and shot the grandmother again."

Adgent said that while the father had won his case for broader visitation rights, his requests for additional information about the child's daily whereabouts -- including the location of her daycare center -- were denied.

The couple was not married.

Hill, who had recently retired from the U.S. Navy and lived in Virginia, then drove about 10 miles south to the Pear Tree Inn, where he paid the $32.99 daily room rate in cash and checked in under his own name.

Early in the afternoon, police discovered his car in the hotel parking lot. After a SWAT team arrived at the hotel shortly after 4 p.m. (5 p.m. ET), police negotiators called Hill and, for the next three hours, tried to convince him to give himself up, Aaron said.

"He was very despondent, upset during the conversation," Aaron said. "At times, he talked of suicide. He also talked about making the SWAT team kill him."

At 7:25 p.m. (8:25 p.m. ET), Hill put the receiver down but did not hang up the phone. Soon after, the negotiator heard a gunshot.

SWAT team members then entered the room "and saw that he was deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head," Aaron said.

A handgun was found in the room.

The daughter was taken into custody by the Metropolitan Police Department, Adgent said, and then taken to the Department of Children's Services.

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