According to reports by Florida police, someone placed a frantic 911 call stating Plies and his crew were holding “white guys hostage.” Police rushed to the scene but when they got there, it was not a hostage situation that they found. Hit the jump to find out what happened.
Trenton Hostage Standoff With Armed Man Enters Day Two
The hostage situation involving an armed man in Trenton, NJ has entered day two. A man in barricaded in his home and holding two children hostage in a home where he killed his girlfriend and her child. Trenton and state police, as well as the FBI, are doing everything they can to coax the man from the home without harming the children inside. The man holding the children hostage is not believed to be their father, but the ex-boyfriend of their slain mother, Carmen Kelly. The ages of the children believed to be 17, 14, and 4 but the police have yet to reveal which child was killed by the gunman. Read more below.
Alabama Child Hostage Situation Enters 5th Day
A crazed man killed a bus driver and took a 5-year-old child hostage on Tuesday. Today Alabama authorities are scrambling to put the hostage situation to rest and ensure the safety of the young boy. Retired truck driver and Vietnam vet, Jimmy Lee Dykes, recently moved into the area surrounding Midland City and has a troubled history. On Tuesday, he boarded a school bus filled with children, demanded the 65-year-old bus driver to hand over two children and when the bus driver refused, Dykes took one of the children. The armed man and the young boy are currently held up on a bunker near where he shot the bus driver. Read more below.
BREAKING NEWS: American Hostage Killed In Algerian Hostage Situation
According to FOXNews, the Associated Press has reported that one of the Americans being held in the Algerian hostage situation has been killed. We’ll have more details as they come in. Julie A.
UPDATE: 4 People Killed, Including Gunman After Hostage Situation In Aurora, CO
Sadly the situation in Aurora, Colorado, in which about 40 SWAT team members were surrounding a home in which an armed man was believed to be holding 3 or 4 people hostage has ended in bloodshed. Police were called to the home at about 3 a.m. and had been working diligently to get the hostages out safely, but to no avail they were killed. Hostage negotiators were also on scene to deal with the man who was said to be dangerous. Aurora, CO was the town in which James Holmes opened fire on a movie theater killing 12 people On July 20. Reports have just come in that four people, including the gunman, were killed during the hostage situation. We’ll have more details as they come in. UPDATE 1:59p.m.: One person who was held hostage was able to escape and alert authorities this morning. The suspect was shot by police officers at about 9a.m. and his three hostages are believed to be adults were killed earlier. Julie A.
Hostage Situation In Pittsburgh!
Klein Michael Thaxton, who has a military and criminal background, has taken one person hostage on the 16th floor of Three Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Emergency units, including a police SWAT team and special weapons, and tactics officers are on the scene. There have been no shots fired or injuries reported. Click below to read more. Jason J.
