FBI ends 15-hour hostage standoff in California’s Bakersfield

A tense 15-hour hostage standoff in downtown Bakersfield, California ended early Wednesday when FBI agents fatally shot a man who had taken 10 people hostage inside a building housing a bank and school district office.

San Francisco: A man took 10 people hostage inside a California office building before the FBI shot and killed him early Wednesday, bringing the more than 15-hour standoff to an end, 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.

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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.