The Latest: Police: 7-year-old among hostages in restaurant [Baltimore](Update:Perp detained)

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | July 17, 2016 2:02 pm | AP

[COBOL2Java]

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Latest on a barricade situation in Baltimore (all times local):

2 p.m.

Baltimore Police say a 7-year-old is among those being held hostage at a Burger King restaurant.

Police spokesman T.J. Smith said in a news conference Sunday that “about four” people are in the restaurant with an armed suspect who fled from police.

Smith said the suspect is wanted on a rape charge and led police on a vehicle chase earlier Sunday before crashing into another vehicle and then fleeing by foot into the Burger King in Southwest Baltimore. Smith said the driver of the other car is being treated for minor injuries.

SWAT team and negotiators are at the scene and police are asking the public to avoid the area.

[matt04]

Baltimore: Come for the History, stay because you got murdered or held hostage.

[ronniesgal]

police ask that u avoid the area!!!
Done, and done. Baltimore and BK both.

[dragnet2]

Bookmark

[Popman]

Send in the bomb robot...

[blueyon]

Oh my...Prayers

[Vendome]

[RummyChick]

Johnny 5 to the rescue

[Lent]

Is this another one of Bayracks sons running lose and wild?

[Gaffer]

It’s the same. Over and over again. I await some chair-bound lazy liberal at the NYT or WaPo telling me that it is “my fault” as some privileged whitey.

[ASA Vet]

Never been to Baltimore or Maryland for that matter, nor do I have any desire to go there.
Finding a BK around here is getting difficult. Most of them have closed up.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Dear Lord please distract the hostage takers/kidnappers and let their captives go free. And let enough of the black community there to count, get sick and tired of the shenanigans in their name that achieve nothing good.

[Mr. M.J.B.]

dasafact

[dfwgator]

Another “gift” from Katrina, no doubt.

[nickedknack]

“Want C-4 with your order?”

[DeFault User]

Yep, Burger Kings do not lack for windows.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake order the police to give the suspect some space to destroy. Marilyn Mosby is already drawing up indictments of the police officers involved.

[A CA Guy]

Hope it turns out OK.
That rapist, if Obama had a son, well you know.

[heterosupremacist]

Never been to Baltimore or Maryland for that matter, nor do I have any desire to go there.

I went to Baltimore seven years ago, and I then swore a solemn oath never to return!

WORST ghettos I have ever seen. (I’ve seen more than I care to admit...) unequivocally the WORST!

[ExSES]

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake should conduct negotiations (in person) within the restaurant..., she can buy a Whopper and Fries for the Perp and assure him that "she is on his side" to assure his civil rights are protected!