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Cops Credit Calif. Hostage for Ending Standoff Peacefully
A hostage situation ended peacefully after a gunman walked into a sporting goods store in Yuba City, Calif., and held a female employee at gunpoint for hours, officials said.
The suspect, identified as Juan Carlos Alvarez, 29, eventually surrendered to police on Sunday in what authorities believe was a botched robbery inside a Big 5 Sporting Goods store. The hostage, Allyson Taylor, 18, was able to escape the harrowing incident without injury thanks to some quick thinking on her feet.
Cops say that Taylor opened up a dialogue with her captor, which eventually led to a peaceful end to the standoff. "She knew when to push, she knew when to let him be. You can't help but thank her enough and be in awe of that young girl," said Shawna Pavey, operations support manager of the Yuba City Police Department.
"He didn't want to die that day. He wanted to be able to see his daughter again and so I knew that as long as, 'You don't hurt me you can see your daughter again,'" Taylor said.
A hostage situation ended peacefully after a gunman walked into a sporting goods store in Yuba City, Calif., and held a female employee at gunpoint for hours, officials said.
The suspect, identified as Juan Carlos Alvarez, 29, eventually surrendered to police on Sunday in what authorities believe was a botched robbery inside a Big 5 Sporting Goods store. The hostage, Allyson Taylor, 18, was able to escape the harrowing incident without injury thanks to some quick thinking on her feet.
Cops say that Taylor opened up a dialogue with her captor, which eventually led to a peaceful end to the standoff. "She knew when to push, she knew when to let him be. You can't help but thank her enough and be in awe of that young girl," said Shawna Pavey, operations support manager of the Yuba City Police Department.
"He didn't want to die that day. He wanted to be able to see his daughter again and so I knew that as long as, 'You don't hurt me you can see your daughter again,'" Taylor said.
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/cops-credit-calif-hostage-ending-standoff-peacefully-133943045--abc-news-topstories.html
Kudos to the young lady. She kept cool under pressure
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Sometimes it all works out (Original Post)
sarisataka
Aug 2012
OP
C'mon man. Don't you know we're bloodthirsty and can't wait to open up? (GATH)*
shadowrider
Aug 2012
#5
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. Good post demonstrating guns aren't always best defense.
sarisataka
(18,733 posts)2. Right tool for the right job
her tool was her brain and she used it like a champion.
I have no problem acknowledging that.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,481 posts)4. The brain...
...is always the right tool. Sometimes it's the only one needed.
Bravo!
PavePusher
(15,374 posts)3. And since no-one has claimed they are....
shadowrider
(4,941 posts)5. C'mon man. Don't you know we're bloodthirsty and can't wait to open up? (GATH)*
GATH = Gospel according to Hoyt