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Suspect in custody after 8-hour-long hostage situation at Wells Fargo bank in Minnesota | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
A man who took several bank employees hostage at a Wells Fargo branch in St. Cloud, Minnesota has been brought into custody, following a lengthy eight-hour standoff with police and federal agents. | |
Officers arrived at the scene around 2pm local time on Thursday, responding to a call about a bank robbery in progress, police Lieutenant Lori Ellering said in a statement, noting at the time that negotiations had begun with the suspect and that FBI agents were assisting local law enforcement. | |
During the standoff, footage from a local news chopper showed a number of squad cars parked around the bank, as well as what appeared to be a police SWAT team positioned near the building’s entrance. Two armored vehicles were also photographed at the scene. | |
At one point during the incident, the hostage taker, who has not been identified, appears to have uploaded a video of himself on social media, in which he is seen directing his captives to negotiate with officers. The clip quickly made the rounds online. | |
After hours of dialogue with the man, one female hostage was seen exiting the building with her hands up sometime around 6:30pm, as was captured on video by a local news crew. The same media outlet, a CBS affiliate, later published footage of three other hostages as they emerged to safety. | |
The confrontation stretched on into the night, with officers storming the building and apprehending the suspect around 10:30pm, during which the fifth and final hostage was seen running from the bank, taking a minor fall as he did so. That, too, was caught on video. | |
Despite the length of the standoff, no injuries among hostages were reported, though it’s unclear whether the suspect was injured during his arrest. | |
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