The hostage situation that occurred in Spruce Pine yesterday ended with police shooting the suspect.
WLOS reports:
“They found the man back there holding a gun to the hostage’s head,” said Sheriff Donald Street … The situation was intense. We had a staging situation with him on the bed with the hostage for probably three and a half hours,” said Street.
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