Held Hostage

I watched a video that was about a criminal who held a woman hostage.
This woman's name was Tammi, and she was out buying stuff at a local convenience store in Shelbyville, Indiana.
While she was in the store, a man outside crashed his car into a truck that was parked right beside two police cars. This man was already being chased for an accuse of burglary and use of weapons. He ran into the convenience store and told everyone to get out or he was going to shoot and kill them all.
He spotted Tammi in the back of the store, and told her to head up front with the manager behind the counter, but the manager fled the scene, leaving Tammi there alone with the shooter.
One hundred police officers including the S.W.A.T team, had gathered outside the building. He pointed the gun to her head so that the police officers could see, and he told them that if they came closer to the store, he would kill Tammi.
Six hours went by. Tammi started talking to the man, asking him questions about his life, and telling him that he didn't want to do this because she had five children to take care of, and a husband. The man kept shooting at the police officers and threatened to kill Tammi if they didn't back away.
After twelve hours, the gunman became very agitated, but Tammi told him that she wanted to write a letter to her family just in case something happened, and the gunman let her do it.
After eighteen hours, the gunman wanted to trade Tammi for his girlfriend, but the police refused the offer. Instead, the police told the man to let Tammi go out of the store so that she could retrieve a cell phone so that the man could make a phone call to his girlfriend.
When Tammi opened the door to get the cell phone, the police tried to get her out of there, but failed because of the shots that were fired at them from the gunman.
When Tammi is back inside, she hears the back door of the store exploding open, and then shots were exchanged from the shooter and the S.W.A.T team. Tammi ducked from the open fire and screamed for it to stop. When it did, she saw that the man was lying dead on the floor. He had been shot in the arm, leg, butt, and chest, but he died because he had shot himself in the neck.
I'm so glad for Tammi. I thought that what she went through was pretty intense. Some people can be really crazy to hold somebody hostage for that long. I'm pretty sure that the man did a lot of reflecting during that time period. I don't think that he really wanted to kill Tammi. He was just insecure of what to do. He probably just needed time to think about things, because he knew that he was going to die. He probably didn't want to take another life with him.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 16