
IT IS THOUGHT that a Utah man has won the ignominious distinction of becoming the first hostage-taker to document their activities through Facebook.
Jason Valdez, 36, took a female hostage at a motel in Ogden on Saturday evening and continue to post Facebook status updates – and, indeed, photographs – throughout the 16-hour situation.
Valdez even received a tip from a friend, who was watching the situation unfold on TV, that a SWAT agent was hiding in the bushes outside the motel.
The incident eventually ended when a SWAT team burst into the room. Valdez shot himself in the chest in the moments that followed and remains in a critical condition in hospital.
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