If ever you find yourself unlucky enough to be stuck among the hostages in one of these situations, here is how it breaks down.
In most U.S. jurisdictions, modern police practice gives command and control to the hostage negotiator while the hostage taker(s) negotiate.
However, once any hostage taker is stupid enough to cap any hostage, the hostage negotiator is done, and command and control immediately passes to the senior officer commanding the storm team, and the storm team goes in, guns a-blazing.
If you are among a group of hostages when this happens, the key consideration is to stay low and find whatever cover there is, and try to survive through the seconds of intense gunfire to the point where the law enforcement storm team will have killed the hostage taker(s) and taken control of the scene. When it happens, it is typically a terrible mess. I expect that when the details of this incident are released, it will turn out that someone unwisely shot a hostage, not realizing what would follow.
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