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jackie bentsen is in leesburg to tell bus how this is still unfolding. reporter: it is a very tense situation. great concern for the safety of a couple described as an elderly couple that police here believe that are being held hostage by an armed gunman at this point. this is when it started. about 11:30 this morning, leesburg police responded to an armed robbery at the jewelry store. the suspects fled that scene on foot and went to a home in the 200 block of royal street where he took the keys to a jeep grand cherokee and the family at that home was not harmed but we understand that they did have a very frightening encounter with this suspect. now, the grand cherokee was abandoned and the suspect took off on foot, police believe. at which point he barricaded himself in a residence on valley view avenue. what we can tell you right now is that hostage negotiators from the leesburg police department, possibly from virginia state police, also, are in attempting to be ....