With thanks to Richardson, I've got news of an incident literally right down the street from where I used to live in Alexandria, Virginia:
October 17, 2007 - 7:35pm
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An armed man who barricaded himself inside a bus for nearly four hours surrendered to police Wednesday night.
Shortly after 6:30 p.m., the man stepped off of the bus and armed SWAT team members arrested him and took him into custody.
The unidentified man barricaded himself inside a Fairfax Connector bus on Route 1 after ordering the passengers and driver off the vehicle around 3 p.m., Fairfax County Police say.
Police received a call about a suspicious man riding a bus and when they drove up to the bus and attempted to pull over the bus, the man showed a gun, ABC-7 Reporter John Gonzales says.
A witness tells Gonzales passengers ran to the back of the bus and jumped out of the emergency exit.
Police closed off Route 1 in both directions near the Mount Vernon Plaza shopping center, snarling traffic in the area for several hours.
Route 1 has since reopened.
No one was injured in the incident, police say.
Meanwhile, the body of a woman was found in Huntley Meadows Park about two miles away from the scene of the standoff at around 2 p.m.
Police do not know if the woman's death is related to the standoff incident, but say the death is suspicious.
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2 comments:
Yeah hatte - traffic was chirped tewdaie. NOnono.
My favorite part of the article was the last bit. Body of a woman found in a park? Suspicious? Ya think?
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