A man who took a hostage in an office building in downton Pittsburgh surrendered on Friday after live-blogging the experience on Facebook. The suspect, Klein Michael Thaxton, had a military background and said he had a bomb. While in the building, he posted several updates to his Facebook page, including “how this ends is up to yall” and “this life I’m livin rite now i dnt want anymore ive lost everything and i aint getting it back.” Police later removed the Facebook page.
