A Whiteman Air Force Base airman is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a five-hour stand-off Tuesday in Blanco County Texas.
According to a Blanco County Sheriff’s Office news release, Kerby Barbe, 19, is suspected in the death of another airman whose body is possibly in Nebraska.
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