Cops: Wisconsin High School Student Has Taken 23 Students, 1 Teacher Hostage [UDPATE: Hostages Released]

MARINETTE, Wis. — A student armed with a handgun burst into an eastern Wisconsin high school classroom at the end of the school day and held nearly two dozen students and a teacher hostage for more than five hours Monday, authorities said.

The office of Emergency Management Director Eric Burmeister said all 23 students and one female teacher, who had acted as a mediator between the male hostage-taker and authorities, were released unharmed about 8 p.m. No shots were fired.

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