Hostage situtation at Mall in Tacoma, WA

[sarettah]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1331755

TACOMA, Wash. Nov 20, 2005 — A gunman opened fire inside a busy shopping mall Sunday and was believed to have taken two or three people hostage inside a music store, authorities said.

At least six people were injured, one critically, as shoppers and store clerks scrambled for cover as the shots rang out.

"We're being held hostage," an employee who answered the phone at the Sam Goody store in Tacoma Mall said, identifying himself as Joe Hudson. He said little else but could be heard telling others that he was talking to The Associated Press. Then he hung up.

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[JR]

Tacoma sucks anyway. There has been more shootings at that mall and the movie theater in the last 15 years than there has been in Iraq.

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by JR

Tacoma sucks anyway. There has been more shootings at that mall and the movie theater in the last 15 years than there has been in Iraq.

Put that together with an over-due Mt. St. Helen's explosion, and I just can't see why people aren't rushing there in droves to move in.

[sudden]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Put that together with an over-due Mt. St. Helen's explosion, and I just can't see why people aren't rushing there in droves to move in.

Doesn't take much not to want to move to Tacoma. But that goes for any Ghetto anywhere in the world )