Man who took 5 hostages at a Minnesota bank threw cash, made threats and wanted to be a martyr, court docs say Clairissa Baker, St. Cloud Times
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. A man who took five hostages at a Minnesota Wells Fargo bank on Thursday wasn t armed with a gun but held scissors to a person s neck, destroyed hostages phones and threw cash around the bank during a eight-hour standoff Thursday, according to police and court documents.
Ray Reco McNeary, 35, told both hostages and law enforcement he intended to kill the employees, according to court documents. He said he wanted to “go viral” and to be a “martyr and also threatened to kill himself or put law enforcement in a position to kill him.
St. Cloud Times
ST. CLOUD, Minn. A man who took five hostages at a Minnesota Wells Fargo bank on Thursday wasn t armed with a gun but held scissors to a person s neck, destroyed hostages phones and threw cash around the bank during a eight-hour standoff Thursday, according to police and court documents.
Ray Reco McNeary, 35, told both hostages and law enforcement he intended to kill the employees, according to court documents. He said he wanted to “go viral” and to be a “martyr and also threatened to kill himself or put law enforcement in a position to kill him.
The incident put a community on edge as FBI agents worked with local agencies to free the hostages, one of whom spent part of the standoff in hiding, communicating with law enforcement via cell phone, authorities say.