Lincoln Police were called to a home near 70th and Leighton around 3:45 a.m. Wednesday to investigate a weapons violation. Public Information officer Erika Thomas says when officers arrived they learned that 50-year-old Stanley McDuffie had gotten into a verbal altercation with a 42-year-old woman who locked herself in a bedroom to get away from him.
“He broke into the room, took her phone and a gun lock box with a weapon inside, and went back downstairs,” Thomas says. She also tells KLIN News that McDuffie threatened the woman causing her to fear for her life.
The woman then heard two gunshots from downstairs, but no one was injured. “She spent the next several hours in the bedroom upstairs as McDuffie continued to
threaten her,” Thomas says.
“She sent an electronic message to a friend, who arrived at the home armed with a baseball bat. McDuffie then threatened the 51-year-old female before
she called police.”
When officers arrived, they found a .380 caliber handgun and an unfired round on the porch along with the baseball bat and the phone, which had been damaged.
McDuffie was taken into custody without incident and arrested for terroristic threats, domestic assault and criminal mischief.