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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 09:34 AM Sep 2012

Man claiming to have a bomb takes over Gateway Center suite

Source: Post-gazette

Pittsburgh police are trying to negotiate with a man armed with a gun and who says he has a bomb on the 16th floor of 3 Gateway Center, Downtown, Allegheny county emergency dispatchers said.

The man is in Suite 1625 of the building at 401 Liberty Ave., dispatchers said.

Special weapons and tactics officers have arrived.

Police said he walked in the suite and said he had a gun and a bomb. He took a manager hostage and told everyone else to leave, police said.



Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-city/man-claiming-to-have-a-bomb-takes-over-floor-of-gateway-center-654368/

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Man claiming to have a bomb takes over Gateway Center suite (Original Post) Bosonic Sep 2012 OP
I'll bet his retirement EC Sep 2012 #1
Hmmm wonder if Ms Geller provoked this?? jonesgirl Sep 2012 #2
The office is an EC Sep 2012 #4
Not terrorism slackmaster Sep 2012 #3
He's updating his Facebook page qanda Sep 2012 #5

jonesgirl

(157 posts)
2. Hmmm wonder if Ms Geller provoked this??
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 10:22 AM
Sep 2012

Maybe he's expressing his freedom of speech, you know, as Ms Geller does with her ad...calling to defeat Jihad.
I said this with sarcasm...but you never know

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