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Kansas standoff ends, shooting suspect in custody

FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a 34-year-old man suspected in a Falls City shooting has been captured in Kansas.

The patrol says Desiderio Hernandez was taken into custody after a nearly seven-hour standoff with officers at a residence in Horton, Kansas. He was being held in Brown County Jail to await his return to Richardson County in Nebraska, where he’s charged with attempted murder.

Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could be contacted to comment on Hernandez’s behalf.

The patrol says Hernandez is suspected of shooting 31-year-old Joseph Debella Jr. early Wednesday morning. A warrant affidavit says Hernandez told his sister and brother that he’d shot Debella, who’s been hospitalized in Lincoln.

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