08-25-2004, 05:09 PM
One of my closest friends was close enough to this to hear the shots :ph34r:
Suspected hostage-taker shot dead by T.O. police
CTV.ca News Staff
A scary hostage-taking outside Toronto's Union Station has ended. Police have shot a male suspect dead.
They say the incident is related to an earlier attack where a woman was shot in the head by a man at a nearby food court. It's believed that her injuries are not life-threatening. She was later taken to hospital to be treated for her injuries.
Reporter for CTV affiliate CFTO News Austin Delaney says the suspect was very calm when he took a random woman walking outside of the station hostage.
"He put a shotgun to her head and stood by a hot dog vendor and didn't say really anything to the hostage at all," Delaney said.
Reports say the hostage held the woman for more than 40 minutes.
"Witnesses told me that he just stepped back for a split second, and the police saw their moment and an officer very, very close by fired the shot."
The suspect's identity has not been released.
Witnesses also said the situation was quite frantic. Union Station is one of Toronto's main transportation hubs and the incident happened close to rush hour time.
"The officers were trying to move people away very, very quickly from basically the heart of the financial district," Delaney said.
Suspected hostage-taker shot dead by T.O. police
CTV.ca News Staff
A scary hostage-taking outside Toronto's Union Station has ended. Police have shot a male suspect dead.
They say the incident is related to an earlier attack where a woman was shot in the head by a man at a nearby food court. It's believed that her injuries are not life-threatening. She was later taken to hospital to be treated for her injuries.
Reporter for CTV affiliate CFTO News Austin Delaney says the suspect was very calm when he took a random woman walking outside of the station hostage.
"He put a shotgun to her head and stood by a hot dog vendor and didn't say really anything to the hostage at all," Delaney said.
Reports say the hostage held the woman for more than 40 minutes.
"Witnesses told me that he just stepped back for a split second, and the police saw their moment and an officer very, very close by fired the shot."
The suspect's identity has not been released.
Witnesses also said the situation was quite frantic. Union Station is one of Toronto's main transportation hubs and the incident happened close to rush hour time.
"The officers were trying to move people away very, very quickly from basically the heart of the financial district," Delaney said.
