Police kill Louisiana bank hostage taker in standoff; 1 hostage dies Authorities say a gunman who took three hostages at a rural Louisiana bank shot the two remaining hostages, killing one of them, before being shot and killed by police. KNOE.com reported that the gunman, identified as 20-year-old Fuaed Abdo Ahmed, had died shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday local time. Authorities said that Ahmed had been shot by police after he had shot the two hostages. Louisiana State Police superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson told the Associated Press that during negotiations with law enforcement, Ahmed said he was going to kill the hostages. Law enforcement then entered the building just before midnight Tuesday. That's when Ahmed shot the two hostages and then state police shot and killed him, Edmonson said. Edmonson said the hostages were shot in the upper body. He did not have any other information on the condition of the second hostage who was shot. The hostages were both shot with a handgun, but Edmonson said Ahmed was also armed with a rifle. Investigators told KNOE.com that Ahmed had been planning to take hostages for some time, even acquiring books on hostage negotiations, and had no intention of robbing the bank. At around 9 p.m. Tuesday, officials confirmed that the gunman had released a female bank teller, and negotiations were ongoing to secure the release of the other two, a man and a woman. KNOE reported that the three hostages were employees at the Tensas State Bank in St. Joseph, La., southeast of Monroe. Edmonson said authorities were able to put Ahmed on the phone with a friend in Alaska during negotiations and that was key in getting him to release the hostage. But Edmonson also said the man grew increasingly erratic as negotiations went on, sometimes hanging up on police. Edmonson said Ahmed was a mentally unstable man who believed a device had been implanted in his brain and said the standoff was not a bank robbery attempt but a planned attack. Ahmed had written a letter "detailing exactly what he was going to do," Edmonson said. "He was mad at people that he said were mean to him," he said. He had voices in his head. But Edmonson said there was no indication Ahmed had any history with the bank employees and authorities did not know why he picked the bank. The bank sits across the street from a service station owned by Ahmed's family. Police said the suspect's family owns a store across the street from a bank branch. Ahmed -- a U.S. citizen and local resident -- was described as calm and had made some demands. The content of those demands was not disclosed by police. The gunman, carrying at least a handgun, took the three captive about 12:30 p.m. at the Tensas State Bank branch in St. Joseph, and the negotiator talked with him throughout the afternoon, said state police spokesman Trooper Albert Paxton.