On Monday night a Tulsa police sniper shot and killed a man who allegedly broke into his estranged wife’s home and was holding her two-year-old daughter hostage.
The incident began unfolding about 11:40 pm. NBC 2 reports that police were called at 11:41 pm and arrived to find “a 44-year-old man [had broken] into his estranged wife’s home, grabbed her two-year-old daughter and [was holding] the girl hostage.”
The estranged wife was able to escape with her boyfriend and three other children.
Police said the 44-year-old man was armed with a handgun and “made several threatening gestures from the home’s balcony pointing the handgun at the girl and officers.” Tulsa World reports the suspect “stepped onto the second-floor balcony while holding the girl with one hand and the gun with the other.”
Police attempted to communicate with the man over a period of hours, using “a Spanish-speaking officer,” but to no avail. Finally, just after 3 am, a police sniper took one shot, killing the suspect. The two-year-old child was rescued and “has been reunited with her family.”
AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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