Posted on 11/24/2006 10:05:30 AM PST by nuconvert
MIAMI — An man claiming to be armed entered The Miami Herald building on Friday, causing the evacuation of employees from the newspaper's offices on the sixth floor.
Herald employees identified the man as El Nuevo Herald cartoonist Jose Varela, according to newspaper. Some news reports say the man is armed with a shotgun.
Police were on the scene and set up a perimeter around the downtown Miami building that houses The Miami Herald and its Spanish-language publication El Nuevo Herald. It was not immediately known if there were injuries or hostages in the building.
It was not immediately known if there were injuries or hostages in the building.
Katia Rodriguez, who works at the newspaper's city desk, said employees were being evacuated from the sixth floor because a man with a gun had entered the building. It was not immediately known if employees from other floors were being evacuated, but about 60 people were gathered outside the building.
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Is this a Fox News Alert or something?
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A former employee of the El Nuevo Herald, the Miami Herald's Spanish-language daily newspaper, is inside the One Herald Plaza building in downtown Miami with with a machine gun, according to news reports.
The former employee, identified as Jose Varela, former cartoonist, is said to be on the sixth floor, where the newspaper is produced. As of noon, the entire floor was being evacuated.
Varela was reported to be inside Humberto Castello's office. Castello is executive editor of the Spanish paper.
Varela was reportedly fired last February.
Thanks for the update.
Hope it ends peacefully.
I doubt it (macine gun) but he will be unopposed as most newsies are gun hating lefties.
The Miami Herald website states it is a handgun.
Mr. Varela is a well known and active member of the Cuban Exile community.
And people (sheeple) think newsies can explain the complicated stuff when they can't even get the easy stuff correct!
OOPS! should have been posted to debg.
Yeah, right. Probably a starter's pistol.
GEEEEZ , Why couldn't he have choosen the N Y Times ? ? ?
I figured that out ;)
Varela apparently took over his [the editor's] office and trashed it, including a cartoon of the executive editor that Varela had drawn.
The beauty of "gun-free" zones is all you have to do is claim to have a gun and you can take control.
Ping!!!!!!!!!
Ping!!!!!!!!!
Did they accidently publish an article supporting conservatism?
Hmm, wonder what kind of articles he would publish?
Unless someone claims to have a .50 Browning machine gun, and he/she will dispute your taking control.
I don't know, I've fired one of those babies (just once) and I recall them being fairly large and not easy to conceal. No one has ever asked me, "Is that a Browning .50 cal in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?" LOL!
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