Florida hostage standoff leaves 7 dead

An hours-long standoff between police and the gunman started around 6:30 p.m. Friday in Hialeah near Miami, Florida, after police received a 911 call.
 
Police officers evacuated the apartment complex, shut down several streets in the neighborhood, and started negotiating with the gunman before a shootout broke out.
 
“This is one of the worst shootings we’ve probably had ever in Hialeah,” police spokesman Carl Zogby told NBC News.
 
A SWAT team killed the gunman after they found him barricaded on the fourth floor of the five-story building where he had still two hostages.
 
“The end result: seven people have lost their lives in this incident, six innocent victims and the one shooter,” said Zogby.
 
The victims were three men and three women. The bodies of the building manager and her husband were found in a hallway. Three other hostages, two women and one man, were found dead in one of the apartments.
 
The body of another male victim was found in the lobby of a building across the street where the gunman reportedly spotted him and took aim.
 
The daughter of the building manager, Shamira Pisciotti, said she believed there was a complaint about the gunman and he shot her parents after he confronted them about the complaint.