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AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,846 posts)
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 01:29 AM Mar 2018

Gunman, three hostages found dead at Yountville veterans facility, ending standoff

Sad, more at link.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-veterans-hostages-20180309-story.html

A gunman and three hostages were found dead Friday evening at a Northern California veterans care facility, concluding a stand-off that lasted for about eight hours, officials said.
Shortly before 6 p.m., officers entered the room where the gunman had been holding the hostages, officials with the California Highway Patrol said. Three women and a man, believed to be the suspect, were found dead, authorities said.
"This is a tragic piece of news, one that we were really hoping we wouldn't have to come before the public to give," said Chris Childs, assistant chief for the California Highway Patrol's Golden Gate Division.
At about 10:20 a.m., authorities responded to reports of shots fired at the state-run Yountville Veterans Home, where a man with a rifle had walked into the Pathway Home building and taken three employees hostage, Childs said.

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Gunman, three hostages found dead at Yountville veterans facility, ending standoff (Original Post) AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2018 OP
That's terrible news dawg day Mar 2018 #1
Did he go there just to murder women? rockfordfile Mar 2018 #2
One story I read said he had been discharged from the facility AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2018 #3
I'll go with "wrong context." Igel Mar 2018 #5
So sorry for the victims ... Rest in Peace brave, caring ladies! mr_lebowski Mar 2018 #4

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. That's terrible news
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 01:40 AM
Mar 2018

A former student of mine texted to say she was in lockdown there all afternoon (in a different building).
I'm so sorry- and ashamed for our country. A VA home. These angry, crazy gunmen....

rockfordfile

(8,682 posts)
2. Did he go there just to murder women?
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 01:59 AM
Mar 2018

The pos walked into the center with a rifle. Enough with post-traumatic stress disorder excuse to murder.

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,846 posts)
3. One story I read said he had been discharged from the facility
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 02:15 AM
Mar 2018

There will likely be more information coming.

Igel

(35,197 posts)
5. I'll go with "wrong context."
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 08:52 AM
Mar 2018

He could have gone to a nail salon. But instead he went to a center that he might have been connected with and took employees hostage. I'm thinking "employee" is more important than "sex" here, and the target was either those women or, more likely, the institution. If he wanted to just kill them, he could have just killed them without the folderol with hostages.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. So sorry for the victims ... Rest in Peace brave, caring ladies!
Sat Mar 10, 2018, 05:28 AM
Mar 2018

Yountville, wow. That's about as idyllic a little town as one could imagine. Cutest little downtown you ever saw, smack dab in the napa/sonoma region wine country ... the kinda town where a rundown 1000 sq ft house built in 1920 on a postage stamp lot would probably fetch $1M, quickly if it was remotely near downtown.

Put it this way ... here's the Culinary Garden of The French Laundry restaurant, if you're familiar ... in Yountville ...

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