Authorities say a gunman who died after a standoff at a Nebraska pharmacy told negotiators he killed a Colorado man in 2011.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska State Patrol says 27-year-old Andres Gonzalez said during Tuesday's standoff in Alliance that he killed 38-year-old Joshua Bullock of Denver.
A statement from Patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins says investigators believe Gonzalez killed Bullock around Dec. 1 and left his body in western Nebraska. A rancher found Bullock's burned pickup near Chadron on Dec. 14. Chadron is 50 miles north of Alliance.
The Patrol statement also says Gonzalez's girlfriend has been arrested on a charge of being an accessory to a felony.
Gonzalez died during Tuesday's standoff, during which two officers and a pharmacist were injured. Gonzalez's father was found dead in his home the same day.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The two officers and business owner wounded in Tuesday's deadly standoff in the Nebraska Panhandle town of Alliance remain hospitalized.
Box Butte General Hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Wallace said Thursday that all three men remained in stable condition as they recovered from their gunshot wounds.
Forty-three-year-old Alliance Police officer Kirk Feller was shot early in the standoff that began Tuesday morning when 27-year-old Andres Gonzalez tried to rob Thiele Pharmacy & Gifts.
Later in the morning, 37-year-old state trooper Tim Flick sustained several gunshot wounds.
Pharmacy owner, 62-year-old Charles Lierk, was shot in the back and arm as he escaped.
Another Alliance police officer, 35-year-old Matt Shannon, sustained a shrapnel wound Tuesday when Flick was shot. He was treated and released Tuesday.
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