FBI Personnel Have Fatally Shot a Man Holding Hostages in Bakersfield, California, Police Say
- Early Wednesday, the FBI shot and killed a gunman, ending a 15-hour hostage standoff at a downtown Bakersfield office building; all 10 hostages were found unharmed inside the facility housing a JPMorgan Chase branch and school district office.
- The standoff began around 1 p.m. Tuesday when the Bakersfield Police Department responded to a bomb threat at the four-story Chase Bank building, with the suspect barricading himself inside with several people.
- Crisis negotiators maintained telephone contact with the suspect, securing the release of two hostages Tuesday night; local livestreamer Jacob Davidson captured footage of the scene from a nearby tattoo shop.
- The FBI identified the suspect as 41-year-old Anthony Scott Searles-Harris, a registered sex offender with a history of violence; Sid Patel of the FBI Sacramento field office confirmed the suspect was killed at 4:20 a.m.
- Bakersfield, a city of about 380,000 residents in Kern County, is located approximately 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles; the downtown area remained cordoned off during the investigation.
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A man who held hostages inside an office building in California for more than 15 hours was shot down by the FBI earlier today, police reported. The hostages were found unharmed inside the building in downtown Bakersfield that houses a bank and a school district office, Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement. The suspect died in "a shooting involving agents" that involved Federal Bureau of Investigation staff around 4:20 a.m., the depa…
A man holding hostages in the city of Bakersfield was shot dead by federal agents; the hostages were rescued safely.
FBI fatally shoots man holding 10 hostages in downtown Bakersfield
An extraordinary 16-hour hostage situation in downtown Bakersfield came to a deadly end Wednesday when FBI personnel shot and killed the man who was reported to have held 10 people against their will.
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