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Who is Archie Paray? Wiki, Biography, Age, Charge over Takes Dozens Hostage in Philippines Mall, Arrested, Investigation Report

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A disgruntled security guard opened fire in a mall in the Philippines on Monday — injuring one employee and taking several dozen people hostage in an hours-long standoff, officials said.

The recently fired shooter — identified in an initial police report as Archie Paray — entered Virra Mall in the Greenhills shopping complex in the Manila suburb of San Juan City, around 10 a.m. local time, and shot another security employee with a pistol, according to reports.

“He felt bad because he was removed as a guard,” San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora told reporters, adding that Paray unsuccessfully attempted to convince fellow guards to join him in his standoff.

Paray also reportedly yelled that he had a grenade, but authorities could not immediately confirm that, according to Zamora.

“We have evacuated all the people in the shopping center and we’re in a lockdown here in the entire mall,” the mayor said.

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Charge over Takes Dozens Hostage in Philippines Mall

Paray also reportedly yelled that he had a grenade, but authorities could not immediately confirm that, according to Zamora.

“We have evacuated all the people in the shopping center and we’re in a lockdown here in the entire mall,” the mayor said.

Video obtained by CNN Philippines shows frantic shoppers screaming and running for the exit.

An initial police report said “more or less 50” staff members were being held hostage, but Zamora estimated there were about 30 or 40 based on the size of the administrative office where they were ordered to stay.

The hostages were unharmed and the wounded employee is listed in stable condition at a local hospital, according to Zamora.

Paray had been complaining of unequal treatment, according to the police report.

He appeared to have been dismissed from work after abandoning his job in recent weeks without notifying management, the mayor said.

He used a cellphone to deliver a message to the guards and the media — saying he was angered over a change in his work hours and accused his superiors of corruption.

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Six officers in charge of overseeing the mall’s security attempted to appease Paray — apologizing to him at an early evening news conference for their “shortcomings” and resigning or offering to quit.

“I’m asking for his forgiveness, and because of this, I’ll resign from my job so this crisis will come to an end,” said employee Oscar Hernandez.

Paray surrendered peacefully several hours later and released the hostages.

Mall management said in a statement that the top priority is “to ensure the safety of the employees, and of the public.”

Investigation Report

Police spokesperson Virgilio Timajo said hundreds of shoppers and employees were evacuated from the mall in Manila’s Greenhills shopping district after gunfire was heard from the second floor.

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo, reporting from outside the shopping mall, said “everything” took place inside the building’s management’s office.

The hostage-taker was fired from his job “not long ago and he encouraged his former colleagues to join him in sort of a mutiny against his former employers, but none of them joined him”, Lo said.

Late in the afternoon, a guard held up a smartphone to media during which the gunman panned his camera around the room to show the hostages were alive. He declined to say how many he was holding.

“Just wait, they will come out alive,” he said.

Mall staff later handed out a few radios to reporters to allow them to ask the gunman questions.

Though major hostage incidents are rare in the Philippines, memories are fresh of when a sacked policeman hijacked a Manila bus full of Hong Kong tourists in 2010, and was killed in a gunfight together with eight passengers when police bungled a rescue attempt.

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