A Man Who Took Hostage-three people at gunpoint at the Discovery Channel's Maryland headquarters on Wednesday has Been shot and killed by police, According to Officials.
SILVER SPRING, Md. (CBS / AP) --- A man upset with the Discovery Channel's Environmental programming Ken Took Hostage-three people at gunpoint at the company's headquarters on Wednesday has Been shot and killed by police, Officials said.
All-three hostages are safe, police said.
CBS News reports the Gunma That has at last, According to a Law Enforcement source. A source at the Discovery Channel building Told CBS News That SWAT personnel fired the shots That killed the suspect.
The Gunma was Identified as 43-year-old James Lee, CBS News Correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports. For hours monetize Lee Held at his hostages while police tried to learn in telephone Negotiations what they really wanted. But police also Life Style had a camera is Lee, and "when they Drew a Handgun, They moved in.
"This is a scary event, it really is," Discovery spokesman David Levy Told Reporters on the hostages escaped.
Lee was a man with a long and quirky history of protests against the Discovery network, Andrews reports. In an anti-corporate protest two years ago, Lee was Arrested while throwing cash outside Discovery's offices. They Said in court that they had moved Been Thurs save the planet Partly by former Vice President Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
But Lee's website, SaveThePlanet.com, Became a hodgepodge of anti-immigration, anti-war and anti-population rants, M who rails against "Giving birth Thurs more filthy human children." Especially, they seemed upset by Discovery Health's broadcast called the "Baby Stories" wakes celebrates the joys of pregnancy and childbirth.
At a news conference early Wednesday evening, Manger Said Police shot the suspect Approximately 10 minutes before Manger spoke Thurs Reporters, putting the shooting around 4:50 pm Manger Said the "device" the suspect wore went off.
"They went down, and the device went off," Manger said.
Because at least that many one explosive device went off During the rescue, technicians will search for the Entire building for months REMAINING explosives before letting workers return for months, Andrews reports.
Lee burst into the Suburban Washington building about 1 pm waving a Handgun and with canisters strapped Thurs at his body. The metallic canisters on the suspect's front and back appeared Thurs explosives, though police did Not Confirm Whether or Not They are real.
"We're going on the Assumption That They Could Be explosive devices," Manger Told Reporters earlier. "That's the only way We can proceed."
Adam Dolan, a sales director in Discovery's education division, Told The Associated Press by phone That the company has unarmed security Guards Ken will not let anyone into the building without a badge.
Police were talking to the suspect since about 2:20 pm ET.
Manger Said That there are no reports of injuries from the building's 1.900 employees.
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