“Debris lay all over the yard Thursday of the home that public records indicate is in foreclosure and has been bank-owned since mid-November.”
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Police: Ga. gunman lured firefighters into home
A gaping hole Thursday exposed wooden beams and insulation on one side of a suburban Atlanta house where a financially strapped gunman held four firefighters hostage for hours, demanding that his utilities be restored, before being shot dead by a SWAT officer.
Lauren Brown, 55, was heavily armed with a half-dozen guns, police said. He told the firefighters that he had planned the hostage-taking for weeks and targeted them during Wednesday’s ordeal in suburban Atlanta so that he wouldn’t be shot, police said Thursday. All four were slightly injured but are fine.
Brown called 911 to lure the firefighters to the home by saying he had a medical emergency, said Police Chief Charles Walters. When five Gwinnett County firefighters arrived at 3:48, believing it was a routine call, he was lying in bed and appeared to be suffering from a medical condition that left him motionless. But when they approached the bed to help him, he pulled out a handgun, Walters said.
He let one go to move the vehicles from the front of his house but kept the other four.
It began a 31/2-hour standoff during which Brown demanded that his power, cable and other utilities cut off because of non-payment be restored. At about 7:30, police were convinced that even if they met Brown’s demands, he had no intention of releasing his hostages, Walters said.
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Watch out people….the cops will now shoot you for just wanting you’re electric turned back on…I can see this is going to get a lot worse that is why the government wants to take your guns away!
Can anyone out there who is a lawyer see if this family was taken advantage of by a bank or lender, if there was a fraudulent mortgage or fraud? There may be an ex-wife or some family would like to have their house back. Just asking. I am not a lawyer, but I wish I could have kept this guy from having to die. It may have been a needless death.