Gunman, 2 Others Dead in Dallas Standoff

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DALLAS (AP) - A daylong standoff between police
and a gunman ended Wednesday with the man
and two other people dead and four officers
wounded. Seven children and a woman held as
hostages were released unharmed.

SWAT team officers shot and killed Francisco
Fuentes, 32, who had held them at bay for nine
hours and fired twice at officers. Fuentes had
been in a standoff with police that ended
peacefully two months earlier.

A police report said Fuentes broke into an
apartment about 2:45 a.m. and fatally shot one
man in the chest with a shotgun. He went into a
bedroom where the woman and other man were
sleeping and shot the man in the head. Fuentes
then barricaded himself in the bedroom with the
hostages.

Police hadn't determined the motive in the
hostage-taking and killings, and they were
questioning the woman who had been held
hostage, spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said. Fuentes
was the father of at least two of the children,
police said.