I'm at work right now...and we don't have the radio (satellite only) and I'm trying to find out if anything else has happened with the standoff...if anyone has any news please post!
I heard it was an escapee from Renous?!
sassy_chick wrote:No more news as of yet. They haven't devulged anything as to why this has happened yet or even officially confirmed the fact that their is a hostage. There was speculation about it having to do with a gambling machine. But as I said that is speculation only, not at all confirmed.
damn gambling
Police are surrounding a motel in Moncton where a gunman is believed to be holed up inside the establishment's bar.
RCMP Const. Michel Mercier said a police negotiator is speaking with the man, who hasn't been identified.
There are reports that the man has a hostage, but police weren't confirming that at midday Friday.
"We can't confirm that there is a hostage. We are only at the beginning of the process with the negotiator," said Mercier.
Police received a call around 10:15 a.m. local time Friday from an employee at the city's Econo Lodge, saying a man had a firearm in the building. The downtown motel has been evacuated, said Mercier.
Kevin Campbell, who works at a used car dealership next to the motel, said rattled patrons from the Econo Lodge fled into his building after a man with a gun entered the motel.
Campbell said people who had run from the motel told him the armed man had ordered all of them out of an area of the motel that contained video lottery machines.
They told him when one man refused to leave his VLT, the gunman put his weapon to the man's head. He then left.
Motel workers said the gunman had lost money on the machines on Thursday, said Campbell.
He added that at least 10 police officers are on the scene with their guns drawn. Some officers are using the cars on his lot for cover, he said.
Campbell said it doesn't appear that the man has a hostage.
"It seemed like the gentlemen wanted to be with the machines by himself," he said.
CBC reporter Heather Robinson said police have repeatedly moved reporters away from the motel because the man appeared agitated as he looked out the window.
Police have also blocked off the area surrounding the motel on West Main Street in Moncton, slowing busy lunchtime traffic to a crawl.
The standoff ended a few moments ago with the suspect placed into custody without incident. In the end it was discovered there was no hostage being held. Blame on VLT's is still being speculated . It will be interesting to see what the cause was and what drove this man to act so extremely and if it was the cause of VLT's. If this was the cause there is a topic of discussion all in its own.
A gunman holed up inside the bar of a Moncton, N.B., motel has given himself up to police after an all-day standoff.
The man had told police he had a hostage but police say there wasn't one. He is being held by Moncton RCMP.
Police say the man was not from Moncton, but was known to police.
Police received a call about 10:15 a.m. Atlantic time Friday from an employee at the city's Econo Lodge, saying a man had a firearm in the building. The downtown motel was evacuated.
Kevin Campbell, who works at a nearby used car dealership, said rattled patrons from the motel fled to his building.
He said they told him the gunman had ordered all of them out of an area of the motel that contained video lottery machines.
When one man refused to leave his video lottery terminal, the gunman allegedly put his weapon to the man's head. The man then left.
Motel workers said the gunman had lost money on the machines on Thursday, Campbell said.
Campbell told CBC Newsworld he didn't think the man had a hostage.
CBC reporter Heather Robinson said police, who surrounded the building throughout the day, repeatedly moved reporters away from the motel because the man appeared agitated as he looked out the window.
Police also blocked off the area surrounding the motel on West Main Street in Moncton, slowing busy lunchtime traffic to a crawl.
Seriously??
Read my last post and Oneanonly's last post
So true Willie...
I watched my father lose it all on those machines.. I never could understand it because he always told us when he won but never what he lost. Even when he did, he would put it right back in again. Plus, he really didn't need to gamble.. he had enough money for the rest of his life if he watched his spending habits.
I always taught that one day I would get a call saying he shot himself or something like that. It's always in the back of my mind.
Now it's my husband.. he doesn't spend as mush as my father did but again; he doesn't have as mush to spend either. He's addicted to those machines and I really can't get it cause your odds of winning to me are so small that it's almost a sure shot of losing.
I wish they would band those things.. I don't think your the only one, Willie, who loves but hates them. They ruined to many lives; just like cigarettes yet the government wouldn't do a thing to change except rising prices. Myself, I don't even understand how such poison can even be "legal"??