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Hostage Situation - 1900 Block of West 35th Street (Jackson Ave.) Near Mopac


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Shit-  "Multiple loud explosions just sounded at the doc’s office. APD announced it would be sending a robot in, seconds later a loud blast and what sounded like multiple shots.  Silence since. Scene now"

 

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Just now, DalTxHornFan said:

Reddit says something big just went down.  Blasts and such.

 

Not sure if it was gunfire I heard but something went off. 
I’m about a mile away from that office and definitely heard something strange but who knows. 

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Hearing from friends right now that the hostage and the hostage taker are both dead. Hostage was a very well liked pediatrician and has three young kids. Terrible.

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Per APD news conference when the robot made entry the hostage was seen on camera and appeared seriously wounded. SWAT entered immediately and the situation ended soon after. More info to come in morning. It sounded like several people behind the media were close to the victim judging from the crying and shrieking upon hearing the news.

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Is the speculation that this is Dr. Dodson? She is not our pediatrician but she answered a call when our two week old kicked and took a header off the couch for our pediatricians 24 hour line. Got us in the fast lane to the cat scanner at Dell and called multiple times to check on us afterwards.

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Damn if true.  Every pediatrician I’ve ever met has been a first class human being.  You can make more money in another specialty, most choose that because they love kids.

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11 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

Is the speculation that this is Dr. Dodson? She is not our pediatrician but she answered a call when our two week old kicked and took a header off the couch for our pediatricians 24 hour line. Got us in the fast lane to the cat scanner at Dell and called multiple times to check on us afterwards.

Yes.

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16 minutes ago, 4th_and_18 said:

Per APD news conference when the robot made entry the hostage was seen on camera and appeared seriously wounded. SWAT entered immediately and the situation ended soon after.

They went for 2+ hours without contact from the hostage taker.  If she was there wounded for hours, and they did nothing...

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Yeah, the deceased has a few kids, 2 of which are friends with my kids. I live in Tarrytown and it was everything I could do to not grab my guns and do APD’s job for them. Community around here is not going to be well. Fuck. 

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Dodson has 3 kids but her husband doesn’t appear to be a doctor. Holzman’s husband is a plastic surgeon and has 2 kids.

Maybe Holzman’s husband was holding Dodson hostage. That make the hostage taker being a doctor and the children count both correct.

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16 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

Is the speculation that this is Dr. Dodson? She is not our pediatrician but she answered a call when our two week old kicked and took a header off the couch for our pediatricians 24 hour line. Got us in the fast lane to the cat scanner at Dell and called multiple times to check on us afterwards.

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9 minutes ago, immamac said:

fuck, I was hoping that this would end well.

Austin APD SWAT was apparently negotiating (using their cutting edge tactics and training) with dead people for the last three hours or so.

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I’m not one too put much stock in a literal “hell”, but I hope that hostage taker has some serious karmic suffering based on the amount of pain caused tonight. 

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6 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Austin APD SWAT was apparently negotiating (using their cutting edge tactics and training) with dead people for the last three hours or so.

And you've got to think that all the local TV news producers are pissed that the story didn't get resolved in time to make the 10 pm news shows tonight!

 

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2 minutes ago, immamac said:

wait so it took them 3 hours to figure out everyone was already dead before kicking in the door?

Yep.  The KXAN twitter feed had video of the negotiator commenting about how they hadn't heard from anybody inside for several hours.

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1 minute ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Yep.  The KXAN twitter feed had video of the negotiator commenting about how they hadn't heard from anybody inside for several hours.

Isn’t the more realistic scenario that she was already dead and he was alive and not answering the phone, and subsequently either offed himself or committed suicide by cop when SWAT breached?

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8 minutes ago, immamac said:

wait so it took them 3 hours to figure out everyone was already dead before kicking in the door?

KVUE reporter on the scene talked to cops/listened to the negotiator:

 

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28 minutes ago, Gucci_Suit said:

Yeah, the deceased has a few kids, 2 of which are friends with my kids. I live in Tarrytown and it was everything I could do to not grab my guns and do APD’s job for them. Wife is not well. Community around here is not going to be well. Fuck. 

In the same boat. Trying to comfort my wife right now. Our daughters are friends. She’s beside herself. Talking about how to talk to our daughter in the morning. Can’t imagine what the family is going through. 

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3 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Listen to the family member's live and emotional reaction to first being informed of her death on live video.  Fuck APD.

I think those were media members, not family members.

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6 minutes ago, Helobious said:

I think those were media members, not family members.

My apologies.  The Reddit thread identified those folks as being employees of the medical practice.  IDK for sure, but it certainly makes more sense than random media folks being upset about the news.  Fucking sad in any event.

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28 minutes ago, wreckatx said:

In the same boat. Trying to comfort my wife right now. Our daughters are friends. She’s beside herself. Talking about how to talk to our daughter in the morning. Can’t imagine what the family is going through. 

Same here. Wife and her friends are all fucked up right now. Tomorrow will be fucked up for the kids. 

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She was my son's doctor when we lived in Austin. She was so helpful and calmed us down every time when our kid was struggling with frequent ear issues. I still cant believe it. Such a nice woman. Cant imagine what her family is going through right now. 

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Such a terrible story. Pediatricians are great people.

Feel for those that have kids that go there. Gonna be thought to explain. All of Austin will have trouble explaining to kids as well if they catch it on the news. My daughter did earlier tonight. Just horrible

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