police seize the opportunity, they use pepper spray and tackle the hostage-taker to the ground. the crowd that s gathered erupts in applause as the tense standoff is resolved without any loss in life. i m glad they didn t shoot her, because i wouldn t want to see anybody lose their life over something stupid they ve done. the tactics employed by police today are different. i believe there s less tolerance on the part of the public for placing others at risk. holly sefia is sentenced to four years in prison. dolores brunson suffers from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. she is diagnosed with cancer shortly after the incident, and dies two years later. she was really kind of a special mother. and being raised without a father around at a younger age, she was kind of a male role model at the same time. she was a good mother. coming up
police and local tv stations, which send news crews and broadcasts the tense situation live. the victim s family sees her on tv. my grandmother called me very frantic saying, wayne, they re going to kill your mother on tv. and i said, what? dolores is a single mother with five sons, three of whom race to the safeway fearing the worst. i thought from the very beginning that it wasn t going to end well. when i looked in the girl s eyes and saw that there was something lost and the knife against my mother s neck and you could actually see it on her neck, i didn t think it was going to end well at all. police proceed cautiously, trying to defuse the situation by talking to holly. negotiators are able to convince her to let all the other employees and customers go free. but the hostage-taker keeps dolores and holds the knife close to her throat. i saw the fear of death in my mother s eyes. you could see that she was afraid. sharpshooters have several
finally, dolores is momentarily released. police seize the opportunity, they use pepper spray and tackle the hostage-taker to the ground. the crowd that s gathered erupts in applause as the tense standoff is resolved without any loss in life. i m glad they didn t shoot her, because i wouldn t want to see anybody lose their life over something stupid they ve done. the tactics employed by police today are different. i believe there s less tolerance on the part of the public for placing others at risk. holly sefia is sentenced to four years in prison. dolores brunson suffers from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. she is diagnosed with cancer shortly after the incident, and dies two years later. she was really kind of a special mother. and being raised without a father around at a younger age, she was kind of a male role model at the same time. she was a good mother.
which send news crews and broadcasts the tense situation live. the victim s family sees her on tv. my grandmother called me very frantic saying, wayne, they re going to kill your mother on tv. and i said, what? dolores is a single mother with five sons, three of whom race to the safeway fearing the worst. i thought from the very beginning that it wasn t going to end well. when i looked in the girl s eyes and saw that there was something lost and the knife against my mother s neck and you could actually see it on her neck, i didn t think it was going to end well at all. police proceed cautiously, trying to defuse the situation by talking to holly. negotiators are able to convince her to let all the other employees and customers go free. but the hostage-taker keeps dolores and holds the knife close to her throat. i saw the fear of death in my mother s eyes. you could see that she was afraid. sharpshooters have several opportunities to strike, and there are several moments whe
involving a clerk that had been taken hostage in the early morning hours on a friday, that was unusual. a woman walks into the store and holds a large butcher knife near the throat of 56-year-old clerk delores brunson. she was working in the flower area at that time in the store. i think she was blowing up some balloons. and the girl just came in and grabbed the first person that she saw working, and my mother happened to be the unfortunate one. the hostage-taker, 34-year-old holly sefia, has been smoking crack cocaine and drinking alcohol. she demands to use a phone and calls family members to tell them she wants to die. brian wilson, now chief of police in nearby federal way, washington, responds to the incident. i think she knew that the actions that she was taking would produce a police response. she s clearly threatening the life of another, you know, innocent person. the hostage-taker calls police and local tv stations,