Gunman and hostage killed in Louisiana bank standoff

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

By Kathy Finn
NEW ORLEANS | Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:47am EDT

(Reuters) - A U.S. police SWAT team stormed a rural Louisiana bank early on Wednesday, killing a gunman after he shot two hostages, one of whom later died.

In a dramatic end to a 12-hour standoff, State Police spokesman Albert Paxton said officers entered the bank in the small town of St. Joseph shortly after midnight because the gunman was threatening to kill one or both of his hostages.

The man, identified as 20-year-old Fuaed Abdo Ahmed, shot both hostages when police entered the building. Police then shot and killed him, Paxton said.

"He was angry and he wanted to kill hostages," Paxton said of the gunman, who initially took three bank employees hostage but released one woman after several hours.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-usa-hostages-louisiana-idUSBRE97C0V320130814

[Art_from_Ark]

1. Damn

[onehandle]

2. A gun used for its intended purpose. nt

[mikeysnot]

3. Imagine that

life saving device fail.

[The Stranger]

4. The police spokesman says he "was angry and wanted to kill hostages" but fails to disclose that . .

Ahmed was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and had complained of hearing voices, police said.

That doesn't seem responsible, now does it?

Changes the whole story in radical ways.

He had already released one hostage, yet they decided to raid someone suffering from paranoid schizophrenia knowing the potential consequences such a raid would have on the hostages.

[ManiacJoe]

5. Suggests that the negotiations had deteriorated rather quickly at the end.

The police thought that the hostages were now at a greater risk with the "robber" than they would be during the SWAT rescue.

[The Stranger]

6. I guess they were wrong.

[ManiacJoe]

7. What do you base that guess on?

It certainly cannot be the posted article since it contains no details what so ever.

Please note, "better odds" does not necessarily mean "good odds".