They are here on some sort of employment exchange program. The four folks who have been implicated in this incident, it is my understanding that they are being very cooperative and forthcoming.

In essence it was a gang rape. There were four people being accused and all four of those individuals were accused of having a sexual relationship with a woman against her will.

Considering that this man has sworn repeatedly on the streets that he would not be taken alive, he would kill any law enforcement office or anyone who tried to take him, we consider ourselves very...

But don’t read anything into it. His calendar was just full.

He’s indicated he’s got a service worker hostage and holding a child and he claims to be armed. We think this may have domestic roots.

We dispatched homicide investigators to the hospital and forensic crime scene investigators to the attraction, and the scene was secured.

This apparently agitated him to the point where he squeezed off a couple of rounds.

We are in constant contact with the man.

The report is very explicit as to what occurred. For all practical purposes, it essentially was a gang rape.

We stress, and underline stress, that the information was vague and unsubstantiated. But there doesn’t appear to be any, at this point, threat to the public safety.