BLOOMINGBURG – An eight-hour standoff with state police ended without further bloodshed this past Saturday evening, when law enforcement officials employed a robot to enter the home of Stephen Fekete, 54, of 789 Roosa Gap Road in Bloomingburg. Earlier, Fekete had shot his wife, Elisabeta, in the shoulder during a domestic dispute, after which Mrs. Fekete fled to a neighbor, who then called 911.

Fekete shot his wife Elisabeta at approximately 10:15 a.m. after the couple had quarreled. The couple had experienced a history of domestic problems, neighbors say. Police negotiators, along with a SWAT team, arrived on the scene by 11:45 a.m. However, after some initial contact, Fekete refused, or was unable, to respond to pleas for him to surrender.   > MORE

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