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Man sets own home ablaze after keeping cops at bay overnightBy Sean BowunStaff WriterA 69-year-old man held off police with a rifle for nearly 12 hours Friday before burning down his house.Firefighters escorted by Comal County Sheriffs office SWAT team members found Berni Mikkelsen of 46 Sable Circle, a six-home eul-de sac, wedged between two vehicles in his garage.Mikkelsen was taken to McKenna Memorial Hospital and then flown to Brooke Army Medical Center at about 11 a.m. Friday.BAMC officials refuse^ Friday totalk about Mikkelsen’s condition.Tve been told we’re in ‘black-out,”’ a media spokesman said.Local public safety officials said late Friday that Mikkelsen was in “critical” condition.New Braunfels Chief of Police Russell Johnson said the standoff was precipitated when Mikkelsen struck his wife, Amparo, 50, during a domestic dispute Thursday night. Dispatch records show officers went to the home at 10:30 p.m.“Last night, we had a 9-1-1 hangup at the residence,” Johnson said. “Officers responded. What we found out is that the wife had ran next door. She had been assaulted. She informed us that her child was inside the house with her husband. She was scared,” Johnson said. “We got out here quickly and set up communications,”Johnson said when police arrived, they talked to Mikkelsen, who was holding his son, Berni Jr., 8, hostage while holding a rifle to his own chin. Amparo Mikkelsen persuaded her husband to release the boy to officers.See STANDOFF/4 A
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung
New Braunfels, Texas, US
Sat, May 03, 2003
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