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Police arrest gunman after standoff lasts nearly 4 hours

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November 17th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police have arrested a man after a nearly four-hour standoff at an apartment complex in eastern Des Moines. Des Moines Police say officers responding to reports of gunfire at an apartment in the 35-hundred block of E. Douglas Avenue, shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday, found the suspect, 25-year old Troy Donald Ramero Ruggles, on a second-floor balcony. The man fired at police and two officers returned fire before he retreated inside an apartment.

Ruggles was arrested without incident at around 9-a.m., or nearly four hours after police arrived. He was alone in the apartment. No injuries were immediately reported in the incident. Ruggles was charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer, and two counts of intimidation with a dangerous weapon.