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Part Deux: Gunman Takes Own Family Member ‘Hostage’ at Texas Hospital
21st Century Wire says…
In an incident which has no connection to this week’s events in Paris, an apparently crazed gunman was said to have taken hostages in a Texas Hospital this afternoon in the town of Tomball, located 30 miles north of Houston.
All across America, law enforcement and media are on edge it seems expecting “something to happen” after this week’s double terror siege in Paris, France. US Senator Lindsey Graham has demanded that Washington’s DHS raise the terror ‘threat level’.
Police are reporting that at 7pm local time, the gunman, a ‘distraught father’ of a hospital patient, had taken at least two hostages at the Tomball Regional Medical Center. Police claim the man was already armed when he first entered the hospital.
Harris County Sheriff’s Office has sent its hostage negotiator and its HROU (High Risk Operations) unit to the hospital.
#HCSO High Risk Operation Unit deployed to #Tomball hospital hostage scene http://t.co/7Q0LBKII8r #ABC13 pic.twitter.com/ujoA6xZVdS
— Houston News (@abc13houston) January 11, 2015
Later, police changed the story and are now saying that no hostages have been taken, and that the armed father is now ‘locked in a closet’ with his family member.
#HCSO: Man has barricaded himself inside room with a person believed to be a family member http://t.co/eXRuTWFOZT pic.twitter.com/2dyRVFlmus
— Houston News (@abc13houston) January 11, 2015
Not surprisingly , some mindless US broadcast media anchors first floated the idea that this incident was a ‘Copycat of the Paris’ shootings.
This is also the second armed disturbance at a hospital in Texas this week. On Tuesday, Army veteran and former clerk at the VA hospital, Jerry Serrato, 48, fatally shot a psychologist before killing himself, at a West Texas Veterans Hospital at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX.
READ MORE PARIS SHOOTING NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire Paris Shooting Files
21st Century Wire is an alternative news agency designed to enlighten, inform and educate readers about world events which are not always covered in the mainstream media.
Source: http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/01/10/part-deux-gunman-takes-own-family-member-hostage-at-texas-hospital/
