3 hostages and gunman found dead after daylong standoff at California veterans’ facility

california veterans' homeNapa Valley Register/JL Sousa via Associated Press

  • An armed man and three hostages were found dead at a veterans’ home in Northern California after a daylong standoff with police.
  • The suspected gunman and hostages were inside a room in one of the buildings at the facility, and hostage negotiators had been unable to make contact with the suspect.
  • The gunman is believed to have been a veteran and a former patient at the veterans’ home.

A gunman and three hostages were found dead on Friday night after a daylong standoff with police at a Northern California veterans’ home, law-enforcement officials said.

The male suspect, armed with a rifle, exchanged fire with a sheriff’s deputy and kept the three female hostages detained in a room at the Veterans Home of California-Yountville throughout the afternoon.

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