Hostage released, suspect still holed up in mail truck

[PhiKapMom]

Fox and MSNBC reporting there is postal truck being driven by a woman postal employee that has been hijacked. People are actually approaching the truck as it slows down and one guy just threw his hands in the air as the postal truck drove off!

Carol City!

[PhiKapMom]

Been going on for an hour! Wonder how much gasoline in this truck?

[Route66]

Yes it is bizarre. A lot of these people seem to treat situations like this as a game.

Of course, many of these people are just waiting out front for their checks to come from the government. It's the first of the month checks he was probably after when he hijacked the mail truck. Either that or he has a personal problem with the woman driver.

[PhiKapMom]

CNN not covering at all but MSNBC and Fox are!

[Catspaw]

I wonder if they're going to make her do her route after the chase is over?

[PhiKapMom]

Police described man as armed and dangerous. They are now stopping traffic on the other side of the road.

Threatened to shoot at police and at media helicopters.

[YaYa123]

MSNBC's Rick Sanchez is really adding the dramatics...He makes Ricky Ricardo look comatose!

and ohmigawd...MSNBC's now added Chris Van Zandt ....oh how I LOATHE that former FBI expert on everything!!!

[Catspaw]

He stopped for the light?

[TexKat]

Doesn't OJ live in Florida now?

Could be OJ, he was back in the news as of yesterday, due to his 17 year old daughter calling in to LE or some help phone # requesting help, saying she was being abused.

[PhiKapMom]

More and more police chasing this truck and a silver car which did a U-turn following very close now!

[WVNan]

I could see him going through the nail to the left of the driver, through the front window. Robbery or planting something?

[YaYa123]

Clint not Chris van Zandt....

[Sacajaweau]

Anybody get a good look at the type of rifle this dude has??

[ken5050]

Maybe the truck contains chads?

[PhiKapMom]

Chase has gone from a small neighborhood road to a four-lane highway and police are all around this truck!

[hopespringseternal]

I'm guessing the gunman is an estranged boyfriend or husband. Lord, protect this woman!

So many of these things seem to end badly that it would seem wise to ventilate the creep the first time he presents the opportunity.

[YaYa123]

The cops have really gotten closer now...I'm counting at least a dozen cop cars. They aren't holding back now...

[cav68]

Today is Welfare Check Day so they(residents) will sooner than later take the truck away from the gunman

[PhiKapMom]

He made a U-Turn and ran the roadblock by making a U-Turn. The police are now using a different tactic! Opening up the pathway by the police!

[Doc Savage]

Where's Dirty Harry when you need him?? They might as well stop the truck now. They're are waiting until it runs out of gas at which time they'll have the same exact situation only they will have brought this to a close a lot earlier.
This guy really want a murder charge! A Federal murder charge. I doubt it. I can't figure out why she just doesn't pull over. turn it off and hand him the keys! Here, you drive punk!

[YaYa123]

I don't want to make this worse than it is, but this female driver looks pregnant. Someone asked the caliber of the guns....I don't know from calibers, but one commentator called it a "large pistol". I was looking at it at the same time, and it looked big to me too.