Breaking News - School hostages
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Breaking News - School hostages
11 students being held hostage in a western TN school. Could be being held by fellow classmate. SWAT teams on the way.
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/968191.asp?0cv=CB10
First heard it on the radio.
Edit -- It's at a community college. Bad, but not somehow not as scary as if it were a high school or middle school.
First heard it on the radio.
Edit -- It's at a community college. Bad, but not somehow not as scary as if it were a high school or middle school.
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Tenn. Man Holds College Classroom Hostage
Tenn. Man Armed With Gun, Knife Holds College Classroom Hostage, No Injuries Reported
The Associated Press
DYERSBURG, Tenn. Sept. 17 —
A man with a gun and a knife took college students and a teacher hostage Wednesday afternoon, a state education official said.
No injuries were immediately reported in the standoff at a classroom of Dyersburg State Community College.
Dyersburg Police Chief Bobby Williamson told the State Gazette newspaper that he deployed his special response team in an attempt to start negotiations.
School president Karen Bowyer called the state Board of Regents office in Nashville to report the standoff, regents spokeswoman Mary Morgan said.
About 22 students were enrolled in the class but Bowyer told the Nashville officials that there might be less than a dozen in the classroom. One faculty member also was being held hostage, she said.
There were no reports of shots being fired, Morgan said.
Bowyer told the Nashville office that college officials thought the gunman might be a student but they didn't know what sparked the incident about 75 miles northeast of Memphis.
Athletic Director Alan Barnett said that authorities cleared the campus of other students.
"Police ordered all students to evacuate, but employees could stay," Barnett said in a telephone interview. "We had students coming in since it happened, but everyone is gone now."
Ken Teutsch, a media specialist at the campus Learning Resource Center, said from his office that he could see a couple of police cars near the building where the standoff occurred.
"It's obviously very disturbing, very shocking, but on the other hand, we're not completely unprepared. There have been training and drills and that sort of thing," he said.
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Tenn. Man Armed With Gun, Knife Holds College Classroom Hostage, No Injuries Reported
The Associated Press
DYERSBURG, Tenn. Sept. 17 —
A man with a gun and a knife took college students and a teacher hostage Wednesday afternoon, a state education official said.
No injuries were immediately reported in the standoff at a classroom of Dyersburg State Community College.
Dyersburg Police Chief Bobby Williamson told the State Gazette newspaper that he deployed his special response team in an attempt to start negotiations.
School president Karen Bowyer called the state Board of Regents office in Nashville to report the standoff, regents spokeswoman Mary Morgan said.
About 22 students were enrolled in the class but Bowyer told the Nashville officials that there might be less than a dozen in the classroom. One faculty member also was being held hostage, she said.
There were no reports of shots being fired, Morgan said.
Bowyer told the Nashville office that college officials thought the gunman might be a student but they didn't know what sparked the incident about 75 miles northeast of Memphis.
Athletic Director Alan Barnett said that authorities cleared the campus of other students.
"Police ordered all students to evacuate, but employees could stay," Barnett said in a telephone interview. "We had students coming in since it happened, but everyone is gone now."
Ken Teutsch, a media specialist at the campus Learning Resource Center, said from his office that he could see a couple of police cars near the building where the standoff occurred.
"It's obviously very disturbing, very shocking, but on the other hand, we're not completely unprepared. There have been training and drills and that sort of thing," he said.
Copyright 2003 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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He's mental.
Gunman holds students hostage in US, claims to be al-Qaeda member
23 minutes ago
From Yahoo! news
NASHVILLE, United States (AFP) - A gunman claiming to be a member of al-Qaeda took up to 16 people hostage at a Tennessee community college and was holding police at bay, officials said.
The 26-year-old Memphis man released three of the hostages unharmed several hours into the standoff with police in Dyersburg, 230 kilometers (145 miles) east of Nashville, officials said.
But aside from requesting a pitcher of water and 16 glasses, Harold Kilpatrick had made no demands of authorities, Dyersburg police spokeswoman Lisa McDowell said.
Kilpatrick remained holed up in a second-floor classroom at Dyersburg State Community College with the remaining hostages late Wednesday, talking to police negotiators through the students who spoke to investigators on their cell phones.
"There is no direct communication," said McDowell.
Police SWAT teams from Dyersburg and nearby Jackson, Tennessee, were called to the college campus shortly before 1:00 pm (1800 GMT) and immediately sealed off the area.
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were called to the college campus later because of a suicide note written by Kilpatrick in which he stated he was a member of the al-Qaeda terror network, McDowell said.
Police believe Kilpatrick, who was visiting his sister in Dyersburg, was armed with a nine-millimeter handgun and a knife.
Gunman holds students hostage in US, claims to be al-Qaeda member
23 minutes ago
From Yahoo! news
NASHVILLE, United States (AFP) - A gunman claiming to be a member of al-Qaeda took up to 16 people hostage at a Tennessee community college and was holding police at bay, officials said.
The 26-year-old Memphis man released three of the hostages unharmed several hours into the standoff with police in Dyersburg, 230 kilometers (145 miles) east of Nashville, officials said.
But aside from requesting a pitcher of water and 16 glasses, Harold Kilpatrick had made no demands of authorities, Dyersburg police spokeswoman Lisa McDowell said.
Kilpatrick remained holed up in a second-floor classroom at Dyersburg State Community College with the remaining hostages late Wednesday, talking to police negotiators through the students who spoke to investigators on their cell phones.
"There is no direct communication," said McDowell.
Police SWAT teams from Dyersburg and nearby Jackson, Tennessee, were called to the college campus shortly before 1:00 pm (1800 GMT) and immediately sealed off the area.
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation were called to the college campus later because of a suicide note written by Kilpatrick in which he stated he was a member of the al-Qaeda terror network, McDowell said.
Police believe Kilpatrick, who was visiting his sister in Dyersburg, was armed with a nine-millimeter handgun and a knife.
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