North Carolina deputies fatally shoot man holding family member hostage

Authorities in Catawba County, N.C. say {that a} man who was holding a hostage at gunpoint was shot and killed Saturday.

Deputies with the Catawba County Sheriff’s Workplace responded to a report of a hostage scenario on Village Circle, simply outdoors Hickory — a metropolis of about 44,000 individuals positioned 50 miles northwest of Charlotte — early Saturday morning.

“When deputies arrived they found that an grownup male was holding one other grownup male relative hostage,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in a information launch Saturday. “The hostage-taker was armed with a handgun.”

The hostage is believed to be the person’s son, native tv WSOC-TV reported.

Disaster negotiators and deputies made a number of makes an attempt to de-escalate the scenario and encourage the person to launch the hostage, in keeping with the information launch.

Nevertheless, regardless of efforts made by deputies and the negotiation workforce to resolve the difficulty in a peaceable method, “the hostage-taker continued to threaten the hostage and was shot by deputies.”

Emergency personnel handled the suspect on the scene however he didn’t survive.

The hostage’s life was “at risk,” Capt. Aaron Turk advised the TV station. “We took motion that we felt was crucial to save lots of the hostage and convey the scenario to an finish.”

Sheriff Don Brown spoke in regards to the “tragic” incident in a press release, saying that his division would “help and cooperate absolutely” with the State Bureau of Investigation as they conduct an investigation.

The Catawba County Sheriff’s Workplace can be conducting an inner evaluate.

Neither the hostage nor any deputies have been damage within the incident.