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2nd Spot News

Patrick Schneider, Charlotte Observer

Dozens of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers surrounded the Executive Plaza Office Building at 501 Archdale Drive, in South Charlotte, Thursday morning October 17, 2002, after a 911 caller said an armed man had walked into the Salvation Army division headquarters. Charlotte-Mecklneburg Police surrounded the Salvation Army building on Archdale Drive after a man with a gun took some people hostage. A nearly two-hour hostage standoff ended peacefully when the man with a pellet gun agreed to surrender and was led to a patrol car in