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A man who was holding hostages inside a California office building for about 12 hours was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday, police said.
The hostages were found unharmed inside the downtown Bakersfield building that houses a bank and a school district office, the Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement.
The suspect was killed in “an officer-involved shooting” involving FBI personnel, the department said.
The standoff began Tuesday afternoon when officers responded to a call of a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building, a four-story office building with dark-tinted glass windows all around. Police said the man had barricaded himself inside with several people.
The department’s crisis negotiation team talked with the suspect by telephone and eventually two hostages were released Tuesday night, police said.
Nearby buildings, including City Hall and the police headquarters th...
