For those of you at CP who expressed concern for my son who is a NSP SWAT Sniper I thank you for your thoughts, below is the official press release from NSP. I don't know much more than this, but all the officers were unharmed and Ralph's daughter, who has Downs Syndrome is ok.

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEBRASKA STATE PATROL
www.nsp.state.ne.us
Contact: Deb Collins 402-479-4985
December 13, 2006


Troop E SWAT Team Involved in
Cheyenne County Standoff

(Lincoln, NE) – A welfare check at a Cheyenne County residence leads to an eight hour standoff involving members of the Nebraska State Patrol Troop E SWAT Team.
At approximately 9:50 a.m. (MT), on Tuesday, December 12, 2006, the Cheyenne County Sheriff’s office requested the assistance of the Nebraska State Patrol, Troop E SWAT Team, after 63-year-old Ralph Bond of rural Lodgepole threatened the Sheriff and a deputy with a gun. The Cheyenne County Sheriff was attempting to check on the welfare of Bond’s 24-year old developmentally disabled daughter at the time of the incident.
Troop E SWAT Team members established a perimeter around the residence located approximately four miles north of Lodgepole around noon (MT). Telephone contact with the suspect was established. During contact Bond made statements about his daughter, leading law enforcement at the scene to believe she may be deceased.
In the early evening hours SWAT Team members were able to determine there were two people walking around in the home, one believed to be Bond, the other his daughter. Phone contact was lost with the residence around dark. Around 7:00 p.m. (MT), SWAT Team members attempted to re-establish contact by placing a throw phone in the home. The phone was tossed into the window on the northeast side of the residence. At that time shots could be heard fired inside the home. Just before 8:00 p.m. (MT), the suspect armed with two guns, exited the front door of the home and opened fire on SWAT Team members. SWAT Team members returned fire and the suspect was shot and killed. The suspects’ daughter was unharmed. She was taken to a hospital in Sidney and admitted for observation. No SWAT Team members were injured during the standoff.
A special prosecutor will be named in the case. Nebraska law requires a grand jury be convened anytime a person dies while in police custody or in the process of apprehension.

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