Chief: Pa. hostage-taker picked victim at random
By JOE MANDAKBy JOE MANDAK, Associated Press?
?Klein Michael Thaxton, center, is lead into Pittsburgh Police headquarters after being apprehended without incident at Three Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Friday Sept. 21, 2012. Thaxton held a businessman hostage inside the office building for more than five hours Friday, posting Facebook updates during the standoff, and surrendered to authorities without incident, police said. (AP Photo/The Tribune-Review, JC Schisler) PITTSBURGH OUT
Klein Michael Thaxton, center, is lead into Pittsburgh Police headquarters after being apprehended without incident at Three Gateway Center in Pittsburgh, Friday Sept. 21, 2012. Thaxton held a businessman hostage inside the office building for more than five hours Friday, posting Facebook updates during the standoff, and surrendered to authorities without incident, police said. (AP Photo/The Tribune-Review, JC Schisler) PITTSBURGH OUT
Police block off the area around Three Gateway Center, building left rear, where they are negotiating with a man who claims to have a bomb, in downtown Pittsburgh Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. A call about an armed man inside the building prompted an evacuation amid reports of a hostage situation. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
People evacuated by Pittsburgh Police from the Gateway Three office building wait outside as the police negotiate with a man who claims to have a bomb in a suite in the sixteenth floor, in downtown Pittsburgh Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. A call about an armed man inside the building prompted the evacuation amid reports of a hostage situation. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
People evacuated by Pittsburgh Police from the Gateway Three office building, left rear, wait outside as the police negotiate with a man who claims to have a bomb in a suite in the sixteenth floor, in downtown Pittsburgh Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Police block off the area around Three Gateway Centeroffice building, rear, where they are negotiating with a man who claims to have a bomb, in downtown Pittsburgh Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. A call about an armed man inside the building, prompting an evacuation amid reports of a hostage situation. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Pittsburgh police say a mentally ill man accused of holding a businessman hostage for five hours apparently picked his victim at random after escaping from a halfway house and that he threatened his victim with a kitchen knife.
Police say 22-year-old Klein Michael Thaxton gave himself up after posting Facebook updates in the early hours of Friday's standoff saying he had "lost everything." The hostage was unhurt.
Police chief Nathan Harper says Thaxton rode his bike from a halfway house and arrived at the high-rise around 7 a.m.
Harper says Thaxton will be charged with kidnapping, terroristic threats and aggravated assault for holding the owner of a benefits-administration firm at knifepoint for roughly six hours. Police say Thaxton also had a hammer.
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