LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — An armed man who entered a UPS processing facility Monday morning in New Jersey and took two women hostage as other employees ran for safety was shot and wounded before being captured, officials said.
The man was taken into custody. Neither woman suffered injuries. All other employees got out of the building safely, Gloucester County Prosecutor Charles Fiore said.
The gunman wasn’t identified by authorities.
He entered the building in Logan Township, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Philadelphia shortly before 9:30 a.m. Monday and fired shots, though Fiore said no one was hit. Hostage negotiators began talking to the gunman by phone as he held the women in a barricaded room.
“I heard one of my fellow employees say, ‘Run, he’s got a gun,’ then I heard the little pop of the gun I guess, and we all ran and law enforcement took over,” employee Allen Anthony Dowling said.
Shortly before noon, as Fiore was updating reporters on the situation, a short burst of gunfire was heard from the area of the facility. Fiore didn’t say how many shots police fired, or whether the gunman fired shots.
Fiore said there was apparently a prior relationship between the gunman and one of the women he took hostage, though he didn’t elaborate.
Police swarmed the area in the morning and evacuated employees. Television news footage showed officers crouched behind a vehicle behind the building’s loading dock.
Schools in the area were put on a modified lockdown.
Another typical day in the good old US of NRA…
Based on UPS service I got during christmas I understand if someone was upset with them! Granted I know they hire a lot of extras during that time, but man it took like a month, I ordered 2 weeks before xmas, and then the guy dropped it off on the porch of the neighbor across the street!
Postal systems aren’t much (any?) better. We sent some stuff to friends in the UK early in December. It still hasn’t arrived, five weeks later.
When are we going to say, “Enough. It’s past time for this insanity to stop”?
Dear Mr. President:
This is what a real “national emergency” looks like.