Beach hostages....
I posted once that in 1998 my late wife and I were among the people on a beach in Sarasota, Florida held by a gunman.
He kept deputies at bay after he shot around some people and told them to stand down. They did. People later said they saw the bullets hitting the sand and making little clouds in the air and it scared them.
Younger guys and I made our plan quietly to grab him if he went left. When he wasn’t looking I had my wife slip under a car in the first parking lot row near us. She said “What good is it going to do me if you’re dead?” “I don’t intend to die”
He chose to lunge right.
Finally he grabbed an older man and grinned and slowly marched him away as his wife collapsed, screaming over and over. He drove away with the hostage.
Happy ending, surrounded by dozens of cops, he surrendered from holding a family in their house.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/10/17/standoff-ends-peacefully/
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