Staff rely on hometown knowledge to spot suspicious parties or circumstances.
But in a case like the incident at Thayer County Health Services in Hebron where a man allegedly shot his ill wife in the hospital, simply knowing family members wouldn't help, they said, and neither would higher levels of security offered at some urban hospitals. You never expect something like this to happen. You can't lock all the doors. It's just unfortunate. He reportedly was at his wife's bedside during her battle with cancer until Tuesday, when he apparently shot her to death and then walked to a nurse's station to alert staff members.