By Holly Abrams and Michael ZennieThe Journal Gazette
One man was dead Friday after a standoff in DeKalb County, the sheriff's department said.
Police had been trying to negotiate with a man who shot his estranged wife in the leg and was holding her hostage in her home east of Waterloo, police said.
Just after 5 p.m., an Indiana State police sniper shot that man, Wayne King, killing him, DeKalb County Chief Deputy Jay Oberholtzer said.
King was believed to be armed with a shotgun. He had refused to let medics treat his wounded wife, Oberholtzer said. After the fatal shot was fired, he said, King's wife was removed from the home and was being flown by medical helicopter to a Fort Wayne hospital.
Police were called shortly after 11:30 a.m. to the 4100 block of U.S. 6 when the woman's daughter ran to a neighbor's house and said that her father was beating her mother, Oberholtzer said.
The two were going through a divorce and King's wife had a protective order against him, police said.
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