Gunman kills one hostage and self in NASA standoff

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HOUSTON — A NASA contract worker armed with a handgun Friday killed a hostage and then himself after a nearly four-hour standoff in an office building at Johnson Space Center, Houston police said.

A second hostage, a woman, escaped with minor injuries, said Houston Police Capt. Dwayne Ready.

The gunman, an employee of Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, Calif., shot himself once in the head more than three hours after barricading himself on the second floor of Building 44, which houses communications and tracking development lab, Ready said.

The slain hostage, a man, was likely to have been shot "in the early minutes of the whole ordeal," Ready said.

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