FAYETTE COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A Houston man wanted for questioning in a Fayette County homicide investigation died by suicide on Tuesday after an hourslong armed standoff inside a church in Fayette County, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office.

The sheriff's office said deputies have been investigating the homicide of a 59-year-old California man who was found dead on Oct. 22 in the 2200 block of South State Highway 237.

Authorities were called to the scene at about 7:44 a.m. after receiving a report of an unresponsive man lying in a driveway.