Man threatens to blow up local news station in Michigan, leading to hours-long standoff

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Man threatens to blow up local news station in Michigan, leading to hours-long standoff
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A quick-thinking employee was able to lock the lobby doors to trap him, then ran screaming throughout the station telling others to get out.

A man threatened to blow up WWMT-TV news station in Kalamazoo, Michigan, leading to an hours-long standoff.A man threatened to blow up a local TV news station in Michigan, leading to an hours-long standoff Thursday afternoon.in Kalamazoo saying he had an important news story for the station to cover, so Chief Engineer George Markle went to speak with him.

The man told Markle he had a bomb and "wasn't afraid to die." Once the man was inside, Markle was able to lock the lobby doors to trap him, then quickly ran throughout the TV station screaming for everyone to get out.

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