Major response to report of active shooter - bank Jacksonville hostages taken

[CARIIS]

“I thought maybe he needed to be Baker acted,” Comb said. “I thought it but, I mean, who do you call? He’s grown. You can’t put a grown man in an institution unless he’s doing bodily harm to himself and he wasn’t doing bodily harm.”

“He wanted to speak to his family. He wanted his wife, his mother-in-law and his father, he wanted them to come to the bank and talk to them. He said he didn't want no money,” hostage Frank Brown said

http://www.news4jax.com/news/local/jacksonville/father-of-suspect-in-hostage-standoff-had-concerns-of-sons-mental-health

 

[Jax49]

Hi CARIIS, dang if I know. They said he even brought dog food inside the bank.

ETA: I didn't see anything to indicate he was homeless. He drove a truck to the bank. I'm assuming it was his.
MOO

 

[CARIIS]

The two hostages were reportedly coordinating the escape with cops

until two trapped civilians made a distraction that let SWAT intervene.

His threats and activity 'escalated and became more intense',

police battering ram ..... a shield until they were able to get between the suspect and the hostages

Police said that they were alerted to the incident by a quick-witted witness.
She told ABC First Coast that she saw one teller disappear and another crouching near the counter at around 9am.
When she saw five or six tellers walking with their hands up toward the safe, she made the call.


'When you see something crazy, let it be known that it's crazy,' the woman - who was not named by the media - told the station.

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[CARIIS]

Concern expressed to police night before hostage situation at Jacksonville bank

The night before the incident, a person flagged down police and said a man was harassing people at a laundromat on Merrill Road.

Humphrey told police that he was almost finished with his laundry and he was not harassing, but warning people about bringing their children to the business late at night. He was not arrested, and was let go.


....her son who held 13 people hostage during an attempted robbery at a Jacksonville bank on Thursday was experiencing a psychotic break.
... said her son Nicholas Daquan Humphrey called her the night before he walked into Community First Credit Union on Edgewood Avenue with a gun and his dog.
"He called and he wanted to speak with a pastor,"
She said she thinks her 23-year-old son had a psychotic break before he held up the Jacksonville credit union.
He told me I would be receiving his big toe in the mail," Harris said. "I said, 'Nicholas, what is going on? What is this about?' Don’t worry about it mom I love you. Tell my brothers and sisters I love them.”
He hung up after Harris asked if he was drinking or doing drugs.

Domestic Violence to Excessive Speed to Drug Possession. His most recent offense was a traffic stop in May.

., why do I always have to be a good guy? Why do I always have to work and break my back for these few pennies and these people are robbing banks and killing people and live in like they want to live?"
facing 13 counts of kidnapping, one count of armed robbery and one count of theft of a motor vehicle.

Humphrey was not cooperative with law enforcement this morning and was “over the top” in terms of communication with his officers.

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/man-accused-in-hostage-situation-at-jacksonville-bank-expected-to-make-first-appearance/472383378

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/l...dromat-customer-day-before-incident/472586914

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/l...dromat-customer-day-before-incident/472586914
Concern expressed to police night before hostage situation at Jacksonville bank

 

[Jax49]

Video from inside the credit union has been released...up close look at the very frightening situation for the hostages.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/...stage-situation-at-jax-credit-union/421207470

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Newly released surveillance video shows dramatic moment a gunman took 13 people hostage at a Jacksonville credit union

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...man-took-13-people-hostage.html#ixzz4bDtzsP82