YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on an armed man at a veterans home in Northern California (all times local):
7:55 p.m.
The California Highway Patrol confirms a gunman and three women were found dead hours after he took them hostage inside a veterans home in California.
Chief Chris Childs says officers entered the room where the hostages were being around 6 p.m. Friday.
He says they were all found dead inside a room in the veterans home.
Childs says a bomb-sniffing dog had alerted on the suspect’s car but no bombs were found in the vehicle. He says there is “no threat to public safety.”
A U.S. official had earlier confirmed the deaths to The Associated Press.