Fuck... Hostage situation in my neck of the woods...

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.nbc26.com/Global/story.asp?S=13584368

An armed student is holding classroom of students hostage at Marinette High School. No injuries reported this evening. Police are on scene.

The incident started at 3:48 p.m. when an administrator called the county, according to Kathy Frank, the county's public information officer.

Marinette County Emergency Management Director Eric Burmeister says authorities are trying to determine how many people are in the classroom.

[MineralMan]

1. I just saw a short report on that on WCCO news a minute ago.

Let us know if there are any updates.

[Wind Dancer]

2. Yikes!

Keep us updated- there's so little info now but this could get extremely ugly.

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[Kaleva]

4. 23 students and 1 teacher being held hostage by

armed male student who is allowing the teacher to talk to the police.

[TheMightyFavog]

5. Marinette PD chief just finished newser...

23 students and 1 teacher taken hostage at Marinette High classroom... started near the end of school day... Suspect is male, armed with handgun. Hostage negotiator inside school... talking to teacher... Teacher is being used as intermediary. No shots fired to this point, no injuries reported... MKE Journal-Sentinel says incident happened at 6th period... Authorities notified after school got out. 40+ LEOS at scene, more on
the way. Most students left school with no knowledge of what had
happened.

[Kaleva]

6. Appears all the students, including gunman, & teacher are from the same classroom

[Kaleva]

7. Next briefing expected at 8:30 to 9:00pm CST

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Five hostages released

Encouraging news.

[Wind Dancer]

9. That is good news.

Thanks for the update.

[MissB]

10. My local news just noted all hostages released.

[undeterred]

11. News conference at 9:30pm CST

Everybody safe. :applause: Well done, law enforcement and high school administrators and teachers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. It is over, (Twitter Feed)

All hostages released from classroom at Marinette, Wis. - WFRV TV http://bit.ly/fggewa

[Goblinmonger]

13. Scary stuff

I teach outside of Oshkosh. Never good to hear this. Wonder what set the kid off.

[undeterred]

14. The student who held the hostages shot himself

and is hospitalized. That's how it ended.