On October 15, 1980, 41 year-old James R. Hoskins armed with a 9mm J&R M68 semi-automatic rifle and five revolvers took 9 WCPO-TV employees hostage in the newsroom, after entering the station about 2 a.m. He held them at gunpoint for about 90 minutes before releasing them and killing himself in the newsroom. During the siege, he taped a 14-minute interview with one of his hostages, reporter Elaine Green, who won a Peabody Award for the interview. On the tape he admitted he had killed his girlfriend in Over-the-Rhine. Employees did not go into the station for 12 hours, until police entered the building and confirmed that he shot himself to death in the newsroom.