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PiscesGunman in Custody After Reportedly Taking Principal Hostage at N.Y. School
Fox News: A gunman is in custody Tuesday after reportedly taking the principal hostage at an upstate New York high school, a town official told Fox News.
A state government official said the suspect surrendered to police Tuesday morning after holding a school administrator at Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains, The Associated Press reported. The suspect is a former student, said the official, who isn't authorized to speak publicly.
No shots were fired during a standoff with police, according to Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver. He said the suspected gunman is in his 40s.
The students are said to be safe after police placed the campus on lockdown, Pulver added.
As armed officers stood guard at the front door of the school, the handcuffed suspect was led to an ambulance, where he was checked by paramedics.
MyFoxNY.com said the man suspected of holding the principal hostage has a son in the military and is upset with the government.
Eyewitnesses said they saw students led out of the school single-file by police, MyFoxNY.com reported.
During the standoff, Pulver told a cable network that police were negotiating with the adult gunman and said the situation was contained to one room.
Dutchess County Sheriff's deputy T.J. Hanlon would say only that the school was on lockdown because of an "incident" but wouldn't elaborate. State and local police were on the scene and surrounded the school, he said.
Margaret Hart, who lives across the street from the school, says police cars are in the neighborhood and helicopters are flying overhead. She said the area around the school has a lot of woods and "a lot of places to hide."
Bill Moore, a resident of the area who lives a few miles away from the school, said he watched about 14 police cars drive by his home beginning about 8:30 a.m.
"We've been counting them as they go by because normally for an accident you might have two or three cars," he told local reporters.
The standoff was over before 10:30 a.m.
Pine Plains is about 90 miles north of New York City. Pulver says the school has about 500 students and 100 staff members.
Roads were shut down in the area, according to MyFoxNY.com.
No shots were fired during a standoff with police, according to Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver. He said the suspected gunman is in his 40s.
The students are said to be safe after police placed the campus on lockdown, Pulver added.
As armed officers stood guard at the front door of the school, the handcuffed suspect was led to an ambulance, where he was checked by paramedics.
MyFoxNY.com said the man suspected of holding the principal hostage has a son in the military and is upset with the government.
Eyewitnesses said they saw students led out of the school single-file by police, MyFoxNY.com reported.
During the standoff, Pulver told a cable network that police were negotiating with the adult gunman and said the situation was contained to one room.
Dutchess County Sheriff's deputy T.J. Hanlon would say only that the school was on lockdown because of an "incident" but wouldn't elaborate. State and local police were on the scene and surrounded the school, he said.
Margaret Hart, who lives across the street from the school, says police cars are in the neighborhood and helicopters are flying overhead. She said the area around the school has a lot of woods and "a lot of places to hide."
Bill Moore, a resident of the area who lives a few miles away from the school, said he watched about 14 police cars drive by his home beginning about 8:30 a.m.
"We've been counting them as they go by because normally for an accident you might have two or three cars," he told local reporters.
The standoff was over before 10:30 a.m.
Pine Plains is about 90 miles north of New York City. Pulver says the school has about 500 students and 100 staff members.
Roads were shut down in the area, according to MyFoxNY.com.
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I just got here, do we know what kind of gun it was yet? How else can we know what guns we want to ban?
Anyway, this sounds like another case of two pointless wars wearing Americans down, only this time, it’s a parent who snapped. I thought the Kenyan-in-chief was supposed to be “change” and was supposed to end these pointless wars? Hmmm.