Mi blogo loco

from Fox News

This is my second live-blog. Eh.

Here comes a statement from Gov Patterson: tragic day.

Apparently, an Asian-America in his twenties opened fire in a civic center for immigrant affairs. Supposedly, people were taking a citizenship class. Way to get out of class.

12 dead, up to 40 held hostage. Not known if this is over or not.


(Going to keep updating...)


Twitter (damn) and googlemaps are coming in handy.

The way they talk about guns belies their lack of knowledge: "a air...high-power air-gun." Air-gun? That would've been a good thing, unfortunately not the case.

First eye-witness interviewed live, young, white Italian-homeboy: saw two Asian males taken out in plastic hand-cuffs. They've said it's normal to put suspects or hostages out in cuffs because they can't know for sure which is which.

Oh, btw, I'm getting all this from a live feed online of a CNN international affiliate. The major channels need to just stream all TV live if they want to survive, and soon.

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So I guess Asians are taking over from the skinny, ostracized, white dudes. Remember Virginia Tech of course. There was another shooting in the-boonies-VA recently, found when googling "shooting" looking for the one up here. Oddly, in more metropolitan VA, near where I grew up, around DC, there seems to have been a bunch of crazy shootings.

Eye-witness again: they were foreign. Reporter: they were Asian?

So, it is a Hostage Crisis In New York, reads the top of the screen, disgustingly splattered with blood. Who thought that was tasteful? They didn't.

Ah, well, I guess it is an international CNN--they just went to another story... about Pakistan.

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Fox News: seems it's over. Lone gunmen has killed himself. Press conference at 4:30... I'll be back. May be 13 dead now.

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This is the end, beautiful friend. The end. - JM

NBC News and news services

updated 4 minutes ago

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Twelve to 13 people were killed Friday whe n a gunman walked into an immigrant services center and opened fire, Gov. David Paterson said. A federal law enforcement official said the gunman was found dead in the building.

"I speak for all of New York when I offer my prayers for the victims and families of this tragedy," Paterson said hours after the gunman shot several people and took dozens hostage. The gunman first blocked the back door with his car, authorities said.

Two people were seen in handcuffs as they left the building, but NBC's Pete Williams said they were not suspects and that police were simply taking extra precautions as people left the building.

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Make that 14 dead, including shooter. He was a south-Asian.

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41 year old, named Wong.