iPhoneX Posted March 10, 2018 Report Posted March 10, 2018 An active shooter has taken three people hostage at a veterans home in Napa County, California. The situation is still considered active and the three hostages are being held in a room with the suspect but police have not been in contact with him, law enforcement forces said this afternoon. Napa County Sheriff John Robertson said that officials do know the identity of the suspect but that has not been released publicly. "I don't have any idea what his motivation is." Josh Edelson/San Francisco Chronicle via Polaris Law enforcement personnel gather near the scene where an active shooter has taken hostages at the Veteran Administration Hospital in Yountville, Calif., March 9, 2018.more + Josh Edelson/San Francisco Chronicle via Polaris Law enforcement personnel gather near the scene where an active shooter has taken hostages at the Veteran Administration Hospital in Yountville, Calif., March 9, 2018.more + Robertson said that the suspect "did release hostages and kept the three he has now." "We've tried [calling the suspect] numerous times and been trying since 10:30 this morning," Robertson said. The incident is unfolding at Yountville Veterans Home, a state-owned facility. Ben Margot/AP A sheriff's hostage negotiation team passes a California highway patrol checkpoint at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif., March 9, 2018.more + Ben Margot/AP People walk to the information center at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif., on March 9, 2018. There was an exchange of gunfire between the suspect and a sheriff's deputy, with Robertson saying there were "many bullets fired." California Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Chiles said that the suspect and the three hostages are in one of the rooms in the building and the suspect has a rifle. Chiles said that the hostages are Pathway Home Employees, which he described as meaning that they worked at the facility but were not direct employees of the home. He did not know the condition of the hostages, though earlier it had been reported that there were no injuries. Multiple SWAT teams, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and local law enforcement officials had all responded to the scene. The incident was first reported in a call about shots being fired at the veterans home. Eric Risberg/AP, FILE In this April 17, 2011 file photo, vineyards are shown in front of the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif. Quote
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iPhoneX Posted March 10, 2018 Author Report Posted March 10, 2018 Gunman takes hostages at California veterans home, won't answer calls from police A gunman slipped into an employee going-away party at the largest veterans home in the United States and took three people hostage Friday in a shootout and standoff that has kept the sprawling California grounds locked down for hours, authorities and family members said. Officials said the conditions of the hostages were not known and they had not been able to reach the gunman by phone after trying for several hours. Authorities said they know who the gunman is but didn't reveal his identity or know the motive for the attack at the state-run Veterans Home of California-Yountville, in one of Napa Valley's most upscale towns in the heart of wine country. A sheriff's deputy responding to an emergency call shortly after 10 a.m. got into a shootout with the gunman, but the officer was not injured. "We are approaching this as an active-shooter situation," Napa County Sheriff John Robertson told reporters. "There was an exchange of gunfire by both our deputy and the suspect. There were many bullets fired." Larry Kamer told The Associated Press that his wife, Devereaux Smith, was at a morning staff party and told him by phone that the gunman had entered the room quietly, letting some people leave while taking others hostage. Smith, a fundraiser for the nonprofit Pathway Home, was still inside the facility's dining hall and was not allowed to leave, he said. The Pathway Home, a privately run program on the grounds of the veterans home, treats veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with post-traumatic stress disorder. The three hostages were Pathway House employees, California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Chris Childs said. The gunman, who had a rifle, was confined to one room and authorities were trying to reach him on his cellphone and facility landlines as hostage negotiators stood by, he said. People walk to the information center at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif., on Friday March 9, 2018. A gunman took at least three people hostage at the largest veterans home in the United States on Friday, leading to a lockdown of the sprawling grounds in California, authorities said. (Ben Margot / AP) Police evacuated the property and closed off nearby roads. An armored police vehicle, ambulances and several fire trucks were at the facility, which houses about 1,000 residents. Army veteran and resident Bob Sloan, 73, was working at the home's TV station when a co-worker came in and said he had heard four gunshots coming from the Pathway House. Sloan sent alerts for residents to stay put. "People are starting to get concerned because it's been going on for so long," he told AP by phone from inside the lockdown. Except for helicopters buzzing overhead, the home was eerily quiet, Sloan said, adding that he could see police with "long-barrel assault-type weapons" crouching around the building, some taking cover behind trees. Jan Thornton of Vallejo, California, was among hundreds of relatives worried about how their loved ones were coping with the lockdown. Thornton said her 96-year-old father, a World War II fighter pilot, was inside a hospital wing and that she had reached one of his friends who said he was safe. Still, she worried about the stress of the lockdown, considering her father's age and that he has PTSD and some dementia. Thornton said her "heart just bleeds for the people that are being held hostage." A group of about 80 students who were on the home's grounds were safely evacuated after being locked down, the sheriff said. The teens from Justin-Siena High School were at a theater rehearsing a play. "They were a distance away from the shooting situation," Robertson said. A sheriff's hostage negotiation team passes a California highway patrol checkpoint at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, Calif., March 9, 2018. Napa County Fire Capt. Chase Beckman says a gunman has taken hostages at the veterans home. (Ben Margot / AP) Some of the children were driven away on school buses and others in cars. Sasha Craig spotted a car carrying her 15- and 17-year-old children and ran toward it blowing kisses. "There are my kids," she said. Like many parents, she was texting with her children inside and said the teenagers were telling their parents to "chill." The state Veterans Affairs department says the home that opened in 1984 is the nation's largest veterans home, with about 1,000 elderly and disabled residents. Yvette Bennett, a wound-care supply worker who supplies the veterans center, was turned back when she tried to deliver what she called urgently needed medical supplies for two patients inside. Of all the medical institutions she has worked with, "this is the most placid, calm, serene place," she said. Earlier this week, when she last visited, she asked a doctor, "What's your magic here?" "And then 48 hours later this happens," Bennett said. Yountville is a small town that's home to wineries such as Domaine Chandon, which is less than a half-mile from the veterans facility, and Thomas Keller's famed restaurant The French Laundry, which is about a mile away. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-california-veterans-home-gunman-20180309-story.html http://abcnews.go.com/US/active-shooter-hostage-situation-reported-veterans-home-california/story?id=53641422 Quote
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Quickgun_murugan Posted March 10, 2018 Report Posted March 10, 2018 ... veterans home lo hostages endi.. kalchi 10gakunda em chestunnaru ...? Quote
Quickgun_murugan Posted March 10, 2018 Report Posted March 10, 2018 Evado gun control ki against donga saale gadu ayuntadu.. guns leni place entha vulnerable o prove cheyataniki chesuntadu... galeez saale gadu... Quote
Lakhan Posted March 10, 2018 Report Posted March 10, 2018 23 minutes ago, boeing747 said: Release chesada hostages ni? Or not yet? 1 hour ago, iPhoneX said: Gunman, three hostages found dead after standoff at California veterans home Vadito saha 3 poyaru Quote
Quickgun_murugan Posted March 10, 2018 Report Posted March 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Quickgun_murugan said: Evado gun control ki against donga saale gadu ayuntadu.. guns leni place entha vulnerable o prove cheyataniki chesuntadu... galeez saale gadu... 55 minutes ago, Lakhan said: Vadito saha 3 poyaru Evadanta.. any news ? Quote
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