Tonight. We have Team Coverage on the hostage pam kron4s Charles Clifford will take us through the events that led up to the standoff. Pam but first, kron 4s scott rates is live from where it all ended. He talked to the owner of the gas station who was also held hostage. Its an interview youll see only on kron4. Pam scott . He ran up to my car and tried to jerk the door open to it i turned and looked at him again and close the car. I was thinking that he would shoot at me and that i would die. Seriously. He was that close up to me as close as you are up to me now. Reporter that is one of the gentleman was a victim and one of the victims that was carjacked. You can hear him he thought he might have been shot there for a moment creek luckily he was able to get away. An armed. Everyone out here was unharmed. That is the good news. You may be surprised with what he have to sit about the suspect creek reporting live in antioch scott rates grant continuing our Team Coverage. Kron4s Charles C
Carjacked someone before being the target of gunfire. He broke the door. That led to the man running into the arco gas station. Then i told him, look, you have come under my roof. It becomes my responsibility, social responsibility to protect you to the best of my capacity. Reporter he and his employee tried to escape when he dozed off. 30 seconds he went in a deep sleep. We tried to open the door. Couldnt open the door. It was stuck. It did end peacefully. Police say he was wantedoon warrant out of tracy for wanted on a arent out of tracy. He is warrant out of tracy. He is now facing other charges. Bail 1 million. John, yesterday when you were talking to him you asked him if it was the worse day of his life, he said it was the best day of his life. Reporter since he survived it was the best day. John sasaki, thank you. New at 6 00 p. M. Rents going up across the bay area. Something most People Living here already know. Now a new report shows how much the rents have gone up. Zillow rep
He is live now with the latest with this. What a scene this was, david. Reporter indeed, ama and dan. Im standing still in the same place weve been all afternoon right across from the arco gas station where this hostage drama has been unfold read for a fourhour timeframe. You can see the Highway Patrol blocking some of the streets and local Police Inside the building continuing to look for clues as to what happened there and there are also vehicles there that were still trapped and getting gasoline at the time. Lets turn back to 11 30 this morning and sky 7 hd was overhead as the man was trying to allude police in the burgundy car and the Highway Patrol tried to help setting up a spike strip. Contra loma boulevard, it crashed into a streetlevel barrier. The suspect tried to force his way into two cars on the offramp pointing to what one driver described as a 357 revolver. The driver described the suspect as desperate to get away. I was coming off exits on the freeway and stopped at the
Human health and, of course, were going to continue to do this. At Stanford David louie, abc7 news. While police investigated a is crime spree that spanned several cities yesterday afternoon were learning more what happened inside the gas station in antioch where hostages were held for two hours. Laura . Reporter hi, dan. One of the hostages was the owner of the gas station. He said hes been here 23 years, probably held up about 15 times. Even still, he said yesterdays ordeal was out of the ordinary but to him not terribly frightening. With more than 20 years at this location, gas station owner has made a lot of friends, many who stopped by today to see if hes okay. Just 24 hours after being held captive for two hours by an armged man, he said hes not only okay, he has a message for his captor. I wish you the best in the life and thank you for not hurting us. Reporter as it turned out his station was the last stop on a spree that began with a car theft, a police chase, a crash and a se
Carjacked the car and the suspect had a cell phone inside and thats when it got interesting because police were able to track the suspect through technology. The victim of that vehicle had his cell phone in the vehicle and within minutes we began a track on that cell phone. The vehicle was the cell phone was tracked to the city of concord at which time that vehicle began making its way back to east county. At one point during the pursuit the vehicle began driving on the wrong lanes of traffic and it was decided in Public Interest Public Safety they we were going to terminate that pursuit at that time and have chp air unit follow the vehicle. The vehicle came back to the city of antioch and then into pittsburgh and at some point between those two cities the vehicle was spike stripped and the tires were somewhat disabled. Reporter thats when the suspect took off running toward the arco station and thats when police say that he took out a handgun and pointed it at police. Thats when the c