Gunman, 3 hostages found dead at largest veterans' home in US after 8-hour standoff

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A tense standoff between police and a gunman who had stormed into a veterans home in California and taken three employees hostage came to a grim end Friday night when officers entered the room the gunman was in to find him and all three hostages dead.

The man had shown up at the largest veterans home in the United States with a rifle in the morning and exchanged gunfire with a sheriff's deputy before crashing a farewell party for employees of a organization that works with recent veterans and taking a number of hostages.

The confrontation stretched throughout the day and into the night; officials said that a number of hostages had been released early on, but three employees remained in a room with the gunman and teams of federal, state and local law enforcement officials and hostage negotiators from three agencies had been unable to make contact with the gunman or the hostages.

But around 6 p.m. local time, officers entered the room and discovered the bodies of the four people, officials said at a briefing Friday night.

The standoff had lasted more than eight hours at the complex, the Veterans Home of California-Yountville, as teams of heavily armed law enforcement officers from state and federal agencies swarmed around the building with worried family members waiting outside. It was not immediately clear when the hostages were shot
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...rnia-veterans-home-gunman-20180309-story.html
 
^^^^^Are people this stupid
 
California gunman was kicked out of veterans program before deadly hostage situation

The gunman behind an all-day hostage situation Friday that left three women dead at the nation's largest veterans home in northern California was a former patient who served in the Army, officials said.

The gunman, identified as Albert Wong, 36, was being treated at The Pathway Home, a non-profit at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville that aims to help veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder readjust to civilian life after they return from overseas.

He'd been asked to leave the program for unknown reasons days before the shooting, state Sen. Bill Dodd told the San Francisco Chronicle.

The incident unfolded Friday morning when Wong slipped into the building during a going-away party, CNN reported, adding workers were eating cake and toasting when he started his attack.

He let several workers go but kept a group of others hostage and barricaded them inside a building on the massive campus in Napa Valley region, which treats 1,000 elderly and disabled vets, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ans-home-gunman-victims-identified/413140002/
 
Very sad. Thoughts and prayers and all that, eh?
 
With respect, if you get kicked out of a PTSD programme then surely you should be sectioned and put into a psychiatric ward?
 
It isnt sad, what a total fucking cunt.

I have friends that had PTSD who've killed themselves, beat their wives kids etc...entering a facility in armor........but keeping 3 women hostage and then executing them is not sad. It is fucking DISGUSTING. What a fucking cunt.
 
Hear me out, and I know this will sound crazy but maybe, just maybe people with mental illness or PTSD shouldn't be allowed to own guns.
 
KONG-D'SNT-TAP said:
Yeah it’s great we have similar shit that happens in Dagestan Russia.

I don’t know how you view this post as some kind of “proved you wrong” scenario.
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The Quebec City mosque shooting (French: Attentat de la grande mosquée de Québec) was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of January 29, 2017, at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of Quebec City, Canada. Six worshippers were killed and nineteen others injured when a lone gunman opened fire just before 8:00 pm, shortly after the end of evening prayers.[5] Fifty-three people were reported present at the time of the shooting.

The suspected perpetrator is Alexandre Bissonnette, who has been charged with six counts of murder.[6][7] Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Philippe Couillard called the shooting a terrorist attack,[8][9] but Bissonnette was charged with six counts of first-degree murder.[10]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting

Okay, we're in Quebec now. Getting alittle closer?

How about Sweden?

https://www.economist.com/news/euro...edish-sense-security-why-are-young-men-sweden

Or Australia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sydney_hostage_crisis

Only in America...which has how many people?

Population is key IMO. We already assume shit happens in Russia, China, Brazil, India, etc. but when you get to America, our standard of living, and the constitutional freedom we're allowed - yeah, things aren't great. We're a nation of 320,000,000 and counting. Variables exceed exponentially when there are that many people. But @KONG-D'SNT-TAP when you like a post that I'm assuming is either trolling, or unironically saying that only America has shootings, then yeah, some facts need to be observed.
 
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Wrath of Foamy said:
With respect, if you get kicked out of a PTSD programme then surely you should be sectioned and put into a psychiatric ward?
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At the very least, be more closely monitored and not allowed to own a gun. I know big brother sucks, but where is the line the sand?
 
The Diplomat said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting

Okay, we're in Quebec now. Getting alittle closer?

How about Sweden?

https://www.economist.com/news/euro...edish-sense-security-why-are-young-men-sweden

Or Australia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Sydney_hostage_crisis

Only in America...which has how many people?

Population is key IMO. We already assume shit happens in Russia, China, Brazil, India, etc. but when you get to America, our standard of living, and the constitutional freedom we're allowed - yeah, things aren't great. We're a nation of 320,000,000 and counting. Variables exceed exponentially when there are that many people. But @KONG-D'SNT-TAP when you like a post that I'm assuming is either trolling, or unironically saying that only America has shootings, then yeah, some facts need to be observed.
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You mean Canada and Australia when combined don’t have even have close to the same amount of problems America faces in regards to guns.
 
KONG-D'SNT-TAP said:
You mean Canada and Australia when combined don’t have even have close to the same amount of problems America faces in regards to guns.
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Yeah, I mean Canada and Australia, with a combined population of 60 million people.

Compare that to 320 million people.
 
The Diplomat said:
Yeah, I mean Canada and Australia, with a combined population of 60 million people.

Compare that to 320 million people.
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Yes when compared we blow them outta the water and Australia has sensible gun laws and hasn’t had a mass
Shooting in 20 years
 
KONG-D'SNT-TAP said:
Yes when compared we blow them outta the water and Australia has sensible gun laws and hasn’t had a mass
Shooting in 20 years
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Are you really looking at the population differences?

I don't really know what you're arguing right now.
 
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