Hostage taker dies in police standoff

After an hour-long standoff, police shot and killed a man who was holding a hostage at gunpoint Monday afternoon in Bloomington. Robert North, 50, died shortly after he was shot in the neck. North held a woman in a headlock with a gun pointed at her head and walked her along Rogers Street. He continued to keep her at gunpoint near the pumps at a Sunoco gas station and refused to obey orders to put his gun down. The hostage was not injured.