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Man who took hostages called troubled 09/18/03 BRYCE CHAPMAN Kilpatrick- 1999 High School photoMp A hostage standoff ended tragically Wednesday night at Dyersburg State Community College that left the perpetrator dead and at least two of the hostages wounded. Kilpatrick -Shelby County Sherriff's Dept. After entering classroom 236 B on the upper level of the Eller Hall Administration building at about 12:40 p.m., the gunman, 26-year-old Harold Kilpatrick, Jr. of Dyersburg, spent the following nine hours holding students and the instructor of the math class hostage with a 9-mm pistol and what police described as a “large butcher knife” before...