Jon Perez and his two friends have just embarked on a weekend adventure in the remote foothills of Kern County, California, when they are ambushed by a mysterious stranger that holds them hostage at gunpoint.

Patients and medical staff are caught off guard when an armed gunman takes patients in a maternity ward hostage, and causes an entire hospital in Utah to go into lock down because of the threat.

Responding to a routine chest pain call, a group of Georgia firefighters and paramedics are taken hostage and held at gunpoint by an armed stranger.

In March of 1994, Clifford Lynn Draper hatches, and then enacts, a plan to hold a group of twelve people hostage on the second floor reading room of the Salt Lake City Public Library.

A former mail delivery driver shoots two people and takes others hostage in an office high rise; an unsuspecting employee becomes a hostage negotiator.

A Bonnie and Clyde-like duo breaks into a farmhouse in the middle of the night, taking a family of four hostage.