ASHEVILLE - A man arrested in connection to a shooting and a seven-hour standoff with police Oct. 12 is facing new charges, including attempted first-degree murder.

And he's been convicted of second-degree murder in the past, arrest warrants show.

Ashley Dean Herny, 45, initially faced a single charge of felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. In addition to attempted murder, he is now charged with castration without malice, two counts of communicating threats and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Herny, who had a Lorcin pistol, was previously convicted of "homicide-willful kill murder in the second degree" in September 1992 in Florida for an incident that occurred in May of that year, according to arrest warrants. The warrants say he was sentenced to 20 years.

Herny was taken into custody Oct. 12 after communicating for hours with APD's crisis negotiators while barricaded in his apartment, the department said in a release. Officers responded to Altamont Apartments that day due to reports of a gunshot wound.

They found a woman in the lobby of the apartment building who appeared to have part of her finger shot off and "possible stippling to her face from being shot," according to an affidavit for a search warrant.

Arrest warrants for Herny's new charges say he attempted to kill the woman "with malice and with a specific intent to kill formed after premeditation and deliberation." His castration without malice charge came in connection to his permanently maiming or disabling her finger, warrants say.

The woman was taken to Mission Hospital. The affidavit says she admitted later that she was in a "domestic relationship" with Herny and that they had had an argument.

Herny also told two officers he was going to shoot them, according to the arrest documents.

An affidavit for a search warrant said Herny told police to "get away from the door, that he would shoot and did have a gun." The document said he admitted to "drinking, being off his medication, having a firearm and attempting to shoot (someone)," adding that Herny was "hostile" and "threatened to shoot others as well as himself."

Herny is in custody at the Buncombe County jail. With the additional charges, his secured bond has been increased from $100,000 to $625,000.