A little before noon Sunday, an apartment on Lakenoll Drive became the scene of what Mt. Healthy police Chief Vince Demasi believes was a murder-suicide.The situation began when two officers tried to resolve a custody issue by getting Eric Johnson to return his 6-year-old daughter, Iyla, back to her mother."During the exchange, the officers heard what they believed to be a gunshot coming from the second floor," Demasi said. "Officers responded up (and) found that the door itself had been barricaded. Additional shots rang out at the officers, at which point they retreated."What followed was an hourslong SWAT standoff that had neighbor Andrew Dawson praying for a positive outcome."That's the most important thing that any of us could do is lean on, trust God," Dawson said.As minutes passed, Dawson described the desperation onlookers felt."The family, all the family was here. They couldn't, they couldn't get passed up where I live. They couldn't get passed there. Everything was roped off," Dawson said. "You had witnesses all over, SWAT, you had people here that was upset."Upset turned to sadness when police discovered that Eric Johnson and his young daughter, Iyla, were dead from gunshot wounds.While waiting for the coroner to make an official determination as to what happened, Demasi said Eric Johnson should not have had a gun."Mr. Johnson has a long felony criminal record and is obviously an individual that – number one, shouldn’t be out and about on our streets. And number two – definitely should not be in possession of a firearm," Demasi said. "But, unfortunately, he was."Dawson said he thought police did a "really good job" during Sunday's incident by trying to resolve the ordeal without anyone getting hurt.