Surrender finishes Virginia standoff
3 freed; man in wheelchair arrested
Posted: December 24, 2009 at 5:25 a.m.
An 8-hour-long standoff at a smalltown Virginia post office ended peacefully with three hostages being released and a suspect who came out of the building in a wheelchair in custody, police said late Wednesday.
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