A Lakeport man died by his own hand Monday afternoon in Nice. Around noon, the Lake County Sheriff’s office was notified that the man was suicidal, and was said to be driving around Lakeport with a handgun. A be on the lookout order with a request for a welfare check was issued for the man. Sometime later a Bureau of Land Management officer located the man and tried to make contact. A crisis negotiator was called in and spoke to the man for some time before the man pointed the gun at himself and fired the weapon. He was immediately airlifted to a trauma center where he later died.