Stockton Springs students held hostage by gunman

[MaineDem]

STOCKTON SPRINGS -- A gunman who had been on the lam for a week held 11 fifth-graders hostage at an elementary school this morning but was taken into custody without any harm to the children, police said.

Randall Hofland, 55, of Searsport, was tackled outside a fifth-grade classroom by a state trooper, who was among the first police officers at the scene, authorities said.

Hofland had released all the students and had given his handgun to one of them before he was arrested and taken to the Waldo County Jail in Belfast, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. The students were removed from the school.

http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/035054.html

Yikes!

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. My husband read that to me last night. That's not all too far away from here.

[tburnsten]

2. I'm glad he at least had the decency to give up

without physically harming any of the kids. Those parents better make whatever they want for dinner and make plenty of time for them after an awful wake-up call like that.


Would have been better if he had just not gone to a school and kept on moving.