|Alleged gunman James Jay Lee|
FOXNews.com - Armed Man With Bomb Takes at Least One Hostage in Discovery Channel Building:
"DEVELOPING: Police in Maryland are responding to a hostage situation after reports that a man with a handgun entered the Discovery Channel headquarters building in Silver Spring and fired at least one shot.The gunman is reported by various sources to be James Jay Lee, 40 of San Diego, California, also known as "Organizer Lee". He was arrested in the past for protesting against the Discovery Channel in 2008 (h/t DCist):
An official with the Montgomery County Police Department confirmed to Fox News that a man with an explosive device is holding at least one person hostage in the lobby of the building.
A Discovery employee reportedly told WJLA-TV that the building, located in suburban Washington, D.C., was on lockdown. The employee also said she thought she had heard five or six gunshots.
Dan Friz, a spokesman with the Montgomery County Police Department, reportedly told the station that a tactical team is trying to communicate with the gunman.
Friz said police were initially dispatched to the building after a report of shots fired at approximately 1 p.m."
James Jay Lee, the man better known only as "Lee", the organizer of a lengthy protest against The Discovery Channel, has been arrested by Montgomery County police. Lee appears to have spent thousands of dollars in advertising his protest plans in publications such as the Express and hiring homeless people to beef up his presence in front of the cable network's Silver Spring headquarters.
Update: Lee followed the terms of his probation from the 2008 case. The court order to stay away from Discovery Channel Headquarters ended two weeks ago.
WJLA reported that Lee was arrested yesterday on charges of littering and disorderly conduct. The littering charge may have stemmed from Lee reportedly having literally thrown money at people on the street so that they would gather around his protest site on Georgia Ave.
It's hard not to suspect at this point that Lee, 40, is at least to some degree mentally disturbed, so we hope this arrest leads to him getting some help. At the very least, it appears as though he has the financial means to take care of his legal troubles.
Various sources say his manifesto (unavailable as I write this) calls for forced sterilization of humans. "Parasitic human infants" seem to be a problem to him. From Joe Weisenthal, an apparent copy of Lee's manifesto:
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