This is insane. This guy, Jason Valdez, supposedly took a girl hostage on June 17th. Over the course of the proceeding 17 hours narrated the situation from inside his hotel room via his Facebook wall, including mobile photo uploads. It got picked up by local media and before long he had hundred of strangers and extended family members on his wall telling him to do the right thing and let her go.
Wish there was a better end to this, but apparently as the swat team prepared to break into the room, he fired several shots, and then shot himself in the chest. He’s in the hospital now. The girl survived.
Pretty weird to see social feedback on a hostage situation, in real time, on the perpetrators personal Facebook wall. All I can think of is Sonny shouting ATTICA on his Facebook wall.
Oh, hello there!
Skip Bronkie here. Just going to lay it all out there. Occasionally.
