Arrest made after man found fatally beaten in North Platte

Police in west-central Nebraska say they have arrested a man suspected in the baseball bat beating death of another man in North Platte.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Police in west-central Nebraska say they have arrested a man suspected in the baseball bat beating death of another man in North Platte. The North Platte Telegraph reports that the attack happened Wednesday, when police were called to a North Platte apartment and found 23-year-old Geoffrey Allen severely beaten.

Allen was taken to a local hospital, then flown to a hospital in Denver, where he died Thursday. The same day, police arrested 20-year-old Logan Divine, of North Platte. Divine was charged with first-degree murder and use of deadly weapon and faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted.