15 Held Hostage in N.Y. Office
NEW YORK — A man with a gun and a “bomb-grenade†device held 15 people hostage for more than two hours today at an American Telephone & Telegraph Co. office where his ex-wife works, but she was in a New Jersey court seeking an order of protection against him.
Bill Saunders of Princeton, N.J., surrendered in the building across from the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan around noon, about 2 1/2 hours after the incident began and shortly after the last hostage walked free. No one was injured in the incident, which police said stemmed from a child custody dispute.
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