Why was Pine Plains High School in New York on lock down today?”
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. (Nov. 10) – A former student held a school administrator hostage for more than an hour Tuesday morning, then surrendered to police without firing a shot, officials said. No one was injured. A state government official said the man in custody is Christopher Craft of Pine Plains and the hostage was Stissing Mountain Middle School Principal Bob Hess. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release details. The Stissing Mountain middle and high schools share a campus. Trooper Tom Jones Jr. said police are going room by room through the combined middle and senior high schools as a precaution, evacuating students as they go. “Evidently, there is some speculation that he (the gunman) had a loved one in the military and somehow this is some contrived scheme on his part to do something about that,” Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver told The Associated Press Radio. Pulver said the gunman was in his 40s. Police were in contact with th
PINE PLAINS, N.Y. (Nov. 10) – A former student held a school administrator hostage for more than an hour Tuesday morning, then surrendered to police without firing a shot, officials said. No one was injured. A state government official said the man in custody is Christopher Craft of Pine Plains and the hostage was Stissing Mountain Middle School Principal Bob Hess. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release details.The Stissing Mountain middle and high schools share a campus. Trooper Tom Jones Jr. said police are going room by room through the combined middle and senior high schools as a precaution, evacuating students as they go. “Evidently, there is some speculation that he (the gunman) had a loved one in the military and somehow this is some contrived scheme on his part to do something about that,” Pine Plains Town Supervisor Gregg Pulver told The Associated Press Radio. Pulver said the gunman was in his 40s. Police were in contact with the
