RIVERVIEW — A nearly seven-hour SWAT standoff came to a grisly end Monday when first responders pulled two dead men from a Riverview apartment that had been set on fire, the result of an apparent murder-suicide, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said.The daylong stalemate began shortly after 7:30 a.m. when deputies responded to the 6000 block of Cypressdale Drive. A 911 caller said he had received a FaceTime call from a friend who told him he had killed his boyfriend during a dispute.SWAT team members and crisis negotiators joined deputies outside condo 102 in a building in the Villages of Bloomingdale, a gated community in Riverview nestled between U.S. Highway 301 and Interstate 75.Inside the home, 30-year-old Keith Jackson was confessing to killing his boyfriend – “the love of his life,” he said – in a live video streamed on Facebook, Chronister said.Jackson refused to answer phone calls or open the door for deputies who had surrounded his home, Chronister said. But on Facebook, the crisis negotiators watched as he held a gun up to the camera and told viewers he had just shot and killed his boyfriend. In the video, Jackson said he wanted to kill himself, but had…
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