A crazed gunman who terrorized three people during a standoff at a rural Louisiana bank posted terrifying Facebook messages including a cartoon about hostages in the hours leading up to his deadly assault. The standoff ended after 12 hours on Tuesday with one male hostage shot dead by suspect . Fuaed Abdo Ahmed and another LaDean McDaniel being left in critically injured. In the hours leading up to the deadly attack, it was discovered that Ahmed had posted a photo of a man with a sword battling a tank online. Scroll down for video . Attack: Hostage-taker Fuaed Abdo Ahmed shot dead a bank employee and critically injured another in St Joseph, Louisiana on Tuesday. He was killed by a SWAT team who stormed the building . Disturbed: Ahmed posted this image on his Facebook in the hours leading up to the hostage situation at a Louisiana bank. He was killed along with one hostage . On August 11, he posted a cartoon strip on his Facebook wall which shows a hostage negotiation. In the first image, a man in a balaclava pointing a gun at a man says: 'I'll release the hostage if you give me a sandwich!' Two . hostage negotiators are then seen discussing the demand. The first . says: 'How close is the nearest deli' to which the other responds: . 'Three blocks.' In the last picture, a hostage negotiator says through a bullhorn: 'Okay, you can kill the hostage.' The 20-year-old had initially taken three hostages when he stormed the . Tensas State Bank in St Joseph before releasing the woman. Louisiana . State Police superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson said he had no further . information about the dead hostage. Preparing for what comes: State and local authorities gathered outside the Tensas State Bank branch after an armed 20-year-old man took three people hostage Tuesday afternoon . Scene: The incident is believed to have started as a robbery attempt that escalated into a hostage situation . During . negotiations with law enforcement Ahmed said he was going to kill the . remaining two, and when officers entered the building just before . midnight on Tuesday he shot the hostages before being shot and killed by . police. Edmonson said Ahmed shot the two hostages in the upper body before state police shot and killed him. He said the hostages were taken from the scene in critical condition after the incident, which began when the gunman took two women and a man captive about 12:30 pm yesterday. Hours after the standoff began, one of . the hostages was released but their condition and identity has still not . been made public. Terrorizing: Ahmed was said to be delusional and had left behind notes and a hostage negotiation book at his apartment . Family: The suspected gunman with relatives in LA. He moved to Louisiana with family after his father died 12 years ago . In talks: The police stormed the bank at around midnight after talks with the hostage-taker failed . Edmonson confirmed the release of a female bank teller late Tuesday. He said authorities were talking with her about her ordeal. Earlier Tuesday, Edmonson said that . the man had been calm and had made some demands, but he would not . describe the demands or further identify the gunman. 'We're still working with him to determine exactly what his intent is,' Edmonson said. The gunman, carrying at least a . handgun, took two women and a man captive about 12:30 p.m. at the Tensas . State Bank branch in St. Joseph, and a negotiator talked with him . throughout the afternoon, said Trooper Albert Paxton, a state police . spokesman. The red-brick bank is just off . Louisiana Highway 128, a rural stretch of road cutting through . cornfields. It is across the street from Trak convenience store, which . the gunman's family owns, in St. Joseph, the seat of Tensas Parish. Edmonson had earlier warned that the standoff could last for some time. 'Our utmost concern right now more than anything else is the safety of those hostages,' he said. More law enforcement people and equipment would be brought in, he said then. 'We've got to be prepared to act,' Edmonson said. Dangerous: Federal officers patrol the surrounding area of St. Joseph, Louisiana . The two hostages were released in what police described as a 'critical condition' before one of them died . The FBI, U.S. marshals, state police and local law enforcement officers were among those responding to the standoff. Edmonson provided few details about . the gunman, except to say he is originally from California and that his . family settled in the Louisiana community and opened a convenience . store. He said some of the suspect's relatives tried to approach the scene earlier, and that authorities were now working with them. Mayor Edward Brown said that, as a . general rule, the town's most notable crimes are the occasional drug . busts, and some residents are so frightened about what's happening that . they've left town. 'It's a quiet town. Very little crime. So this is amazing,' Brown said. The town of 1,200 is near the Mississippi River, downriver from Vicksburg, Miss., in northeast Louisiana. Paxton said he believed that the Trak . convenience store was evacuated, but there were few other occupied . buildings within the perimeter that state police and the FBI set up. Rural: Farm-worker Richardo Miles, 25, sits on his bike waiting for news of the hostages in the Tensas State Bank . Mobile command center: Officers from Louisiana State Police spent hours negotiating with the hostage-taker . Richardo Miles, a 25-year-old farmworker, said he lives about a half-mile from the bank. He sat on his bicycle at a roadblock . near an abandoned hardware store about a quarter-mile away, watching the . activities of dozens of first responders, including paramedics and . heavily armed men in camouflage. A helicopter circled overhead in the . overcast sky for a time as men, some carrying assault rifles, gathered . in the street in front of the bank. Law enforcement trucks also hauled in construction lights, apparently to prepare in case the standoff lasted into the night. Late Tuesday, authorities had received a request for food from those inside the bank building. The sight of the state police bomb squad and SWAT team unnerved many people in the sleepy farm town, Miles said. 'It's kind of startling for the . residents. We're not accustomed to this kind of activity,' said Miles. 'Some people are pretty scared. They're nervous.' Tensas Parish lies along Mississippi . River, but St. Joseph is about a mile from the riverbank and about two . miles from a 3,000-acre oxbow lake that long ago was one of the river's . bends. Nearly one-third of the parish's 5,000 residents live under the federal poverty level, according to U.S. Census figures. Farmland makes up more than 45 . percent of the 600-square-mile parish, with most of it in cotton, feed . grains, soybeans and wheat.
Suspect Fuaed Abdo Ahmed, 20, posted a cartoon strip featuring gunman pointing pistol at hostage on Sunday .
Ahmed was shot and killed by police following 12-hour standoff three days later .
Female hostage was released while two male hostages shot by gunman .
A crazed gunman who terrorized three people during a standoff at a rural Louisiana bank posted terrifying Facebook messages including a cartoon about hostages in the hours leading up to his deadly assault. The standoff ended after 12 hours on Tuesday with one male hostage shot dead by suspect . Fuaed Abdo Ahmed and another LaDean McDaniel being left in critically injured. In the hours leading up to the deadly attack, it was discovered that Ahmed had posted a photo of a man with a sword battling a tank online. Scroll down for video . Attack: Hostage-taker Fuaed Abdo Ahmed shot dead a bank employee and critically injured another in St Joseph, Louisiana on Tuesday. He was killed by a SWAT team who stormed the building . Disturbed: Ahmed posted this image on his Facebook in the hours leading up to the hostage situation at a Louisiana bank. He was killed along with one hostage . On August 11, he posted a cartoon strip on his Facebook wall which shows a hostage negotiation. In the first image, a man in a balaclava pointing a gun at a man says: 'I'll release the hostage if you give me a sandwich!' Two . hostage negotiators are then seen discussing the demand. The first . says: 'How close is the nearest deli' to which the other responds: . 'Three blocks.' In the last picture, a hostage negotiator says through a bullhorn: 'Okay, you can kill the hostage.' The 20-year-old had initially taken three hostages when he stormed the . Tensas State Bank in St Joseph before releasing the woman. Louisiana . State Police superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson said he had no further . information about the dead hostage. Preparing for what comes: State and local authorities gathered outside the Tensas State Bank branch after an armed 20-year-old man took three people hostage Tuesday afternoon . Scene: The incident is believed to have started as a robbery attempt that escalated into a hostage situation . During . negotiations with law enforcement Ahmed said he was going to kill the . remaining two, and when officers entered the building just before . midnight on Tuesday he shot the hostages before being shot and killed by . police. Edmonson said Ahmed shot the two hostages in the upper body before state police shot and killed him. He said the hostages were taken from the scene in critical condition after the incident, which began when the gunman took two women and a man captive about 12:30 pm yesterday. Hours after the standoff began, one of . the hostages was released but their condition and identity has still not . been made public. Terrorizing: Ahmed was said to be delusional and had left behind notes and a hostage negotiation book at his apartment . Family: The suspected gunman with relatives in LA. He moved to Louisiana with family after his father died 12 years ago . In talks: The police stormed the bank at around midnight after talks with the hostage-taker failed . Edmonson confirmed the release of a female bank teller late Tuesday. He said authorities were talking with her about her ordeal. Earlier Tuesday, Edmonson said that . the man had been calm and had made some demands, but he would not . describe the demands or further identify the gunman. 'We're still working with him to determine exactly what his intent is,' Edmonson said. The gunman, carrying at least a . handgun, took two women and a man captive about 12:30 p.m. at the Tensas . State Bank branch in St. Joseph, and a negotiator talked with him . throughout the afternoon, said Trooper Albert Paxton, a state police . spokesman. The red-brick bank is just off . Louisiana Highway 128, a rural stretch of road cutting through . cornfields. It is across the street from Trak convenience store, which . the gunman's family owns, in St. Joseph, the seat of Tensas Parish. Edmonson had earlier warned that the standoff could last for some time. 'Our utmost concern right now more than anything else is the safety of those hostages,' he said. More law enforcement people and equipment would be brought in, he said then. 'We've got to be prepared to act,' Edmonson said. Dangerous: Federal officers patrol the surrounding area of St. Joseph, Louisiana . The two hostages were released in what police described as a 'critical condition' before one of them died . The FBI, U.S. marshals, state police and local law enforcement officers were among those responding to the standoff. Edmonson provided few details about . the gunman, except to say he is originally from California and that his . family settled in the Louisiana community and opened a convenience . store. He said some of the suspect's relatives tried to approach the scene earlier, and that authorities were now working with them. Mayor Edward Brown said that, as a . general rule, the town's most notable crimes are the occasional drug . busts, and some residents are so frightened about what's happening that . they've left town. 'It's a quiet town. Very little crime. So this is amazing,' Brown said. The town of 1,200 is near the Mississippi River, downriver from Vicksburg, Miss., in northeast Louisiana. Paxton said he believed that the Trak . convenience store was evacuated, but there were few other occupied . buildings within the perimeter that state police and the FBI set up. Rural: Farm-worker Richardo Miles, 25, sits on his bike waiting for news of the hostages in the Tensas State Bank . Mobile command center: Officers from Louisiana State Police spent hours negotiating with the hostage-taker . Richardo Miles, a 25-year-old farmworker, said he lives about a half-mile from the bank. He sat on his bicycle at a roadblock . near an abandoned hardware store about a quarter-mile away, watching the . activities of dozens of first responders, including paramedics and . heavily armed men in camouflage. A helicopter circled overhead in the . overcast sky for a time as men, some carrying assault rifles, gathered . in the street in front of the bank. Law enforcement trucks also hauled in construction lights, apparently to prepare in case the standoff lasted into the night. Late Tuesday, authorities had received a request for food from those inside the bank building. The sight of the state police bomb squad and SWAT team unnerved many people in the sleepy farm town, Miles said. 'It's kind of startling for the . residents. We're not accustomed to this kind of activity,' said Miles. 'Some people are pretty scared. They're nervous.' Tensas Parish lies along Mississippi . River, but St. Joseph is about a mile from the riverbank and about two . miles from a 3,000-acre oxbow lake that long ago was one of the river's . bends. Nearly one-third of the parish's 5,000 residents live under the federal poverty level, according to U.S. Census figures. Farmland makes up more than 45 . percent of the 600-square-mile parish, with most of it in cotton, feed . grains, soybeans and wheat.
suspect . Fuaed Abdo Ahmed and another LaDean posted a cartoon strip on his Facebook wall which shot the hostages before being shot and killed by . police. Edmonson said Ahmed shot the two . the hostages was released but their condition Edmonson said. The gunman, carrying at least a .