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SCHULENBURG – David Mark Benes was transported by helicopter to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin following a standoff with police on Sunday afternoon.

Schulenburg police chief Randy Mican said Benes was alone in a house on Pierce Street when police responded to a welfare check call on the residence. Benes was threatening suicide.

La Grange, Weimar, Fayette County Sheriff’s Office and Department of Public Safety officers joined Schulenburg police in the standoff.

Mican said Benes was taken to Austin with non-life threatening injuries.

The incident at the house on the dead end street left neighbors speculating on what had happened.

“I saw the helicopter, but I didn’t know what he was doing,” said neighbor Dallas Booker. “I couldn’t get to my house because the street was barricaded. I was gone and somebody told me, ‘You can’t go home. They’ve been shooting.’”