Posted on 02/25/2018 5:47:11 AM PST by bgill
A man was arrested early Saturday morning after police said he barricaded himself inside a home and took a 99-year-old woman hostage... Wasden and Velasquez spent the next four hours in the home, as Velasquez negotiated with police through the door. Ultimately, it was Wasden who finally convinced him to release her unharmed around 3:30 a.m. after she gave him a lecture about not making a mess, Gabbard said. "He was rifling through the drawers, making a mess, spilling things all over and she has her 100th birthday party one week from today," Gabbard said. "And her words to him were, 'I just had this house cleaned for my party and you are messing it up. You better knock it off.'"
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Gee. I remember when there was nobody in Salt Lake named Velasquez.
Good thing they’ve become so vibrant and diverse.
The contagion has spread from coast to coast. They multiple like cockroaches.
LOL! My kind of person...Good Job, Doris, Happy 100th Birthday!
She sounds like a friend of mine who’s nearing 90.
Valesquez. Good Irish name
I have a friend, too (my mother’s age, if she had lived) who is also like that! Fearless is good, at right time!
He let her go, because he could not handle her correction of his behavior, but could not hurt her either. She recognized, at some point, he wasn’t a murderer. At 99, what do you have to lose?
Well. Obviously a “dreamer” who fulfilled his dream of taking a 99 year old American Citizen hostage. Shoot him.
Is he a “Mexican Man”?
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