It started out to be an innocent meeting, the kind of meeting we've all experienced before. But this meeting turned into being held hostage against her will!
A number of police, including the West Dakota SWAT team, converged in South Bismarck Wednesday in answer to a bomb scare and apparent hostage crisis that all turned out to be a hoax.
"Help me. I'm Amanda Berry," the young woman told a 911 dispatcher. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now."
The man who held five firefighters hostage in Suwanee, Ga. earlier on Wednesday has been shot and killed by SWAT members. Four hostages are slightly injured, but authorities say they should be OK.
On Tuesday afternoon, a man in Dale County, Alabama, near Midland City, got on a school bus, demanded a child be let off with him, then shot and killed the bus driver when he refused. The shooter, identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes, then took the boy from the bus and is currently holed up with him in an underground bunker nearby.