SILVER SPRING, Md. CBS/AP) A man upset with the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming who took three people hostage at gunpoint at the company’s headquarters Wednesday has been shot and killed by police, officials said.

All three hostages are safe, police said.

CBS News reports that the gunman has died, according to a law enforcement source. A source at the Discovery Channel building told CBS News that SWAT personnel fired the shots that killed the suspect.

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Earlier, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger told reporters he did not  know whether police killed the gunman when the hostages escaped.

Police spent several hours negotiating with him after he burst into the suburban Washington building about 1 p.m. waving a handgun and with canisters strapped to his body.

Police believe the man is James Lee, 43, a federal law enforcement official told CBS News. Lee has protested at the Discovery Communications site before.

According to a story in The Gazette, which covers Montgomery County, Lee was arrested there in 2008 after throwing thousands of dollars in the air outside the building.  Read full story here

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