hostage

According to a press release from the Acadia Parish Sheriff's Office, the suspect escaped before officers set up a perimeter around the apartment where they believed the hostage situation to be unfolding.

The scene is now clear.

A Doctor from Baton Rouge is dead after a hostage situation unfolded in an Austin, Texas doctor's office on the night of January 26, 2020. Reports are saying that another doctor, who was terminally ill, may have taken both his own and the victim's life.

According to St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz the hostage situation in Port Barre has ended with the safe release of the hostage

Thomas Chevalier was arrested for home invasion, domestic abuse strangulation and violation of a protective order.

The investigation is ongoing.

Police in St. Joseph, La., say a man who shot two hostages in a bank was mentally unstable and believed a device had been implanted in his brain.