Hostage Stand-Off: Moment Police Killed Gunman

Television cameras have captured the moment a Swat team stormed an apartment complex and shot dead a man who had killed six people.

Officers were called around 6.30pm local time on Friday to reports that shots had been fired in the building a few miles from Miami, Florida.

Police said the gunman was inside and moving from floor to floor before eventually barricading himself with hostages inside one of the apartments in Hialeah.

There was a stand-off with officers lasting eight hours which ended with a shoot-out when the specialist team went in.

Footage showed bright red flashes and the crackle of gunfire.

Police entered the apartment as they believed two hostages were being held at gunpoint.

Sergeant Eddie Rodriguez said both hostages survived. He added officers discovered two other people - a man and a woman - shot dead in the hallway in front of one unit.

Three more people, a male and two females, were found shot and killed in another apartment on a different floor.

The scene of the shooting in Florida

Another man who was walking his children into an apartment across the street was also killed.

Mr Rodriguez said it was not immediately clear whether the gunman aimed at him from an upper-level balcony or if he was hit by a stray bullet.

Earlier, a crisis team had been able to briefly establish communication with the gunman.

Mr Rodriguez said negotiators and a special weapons team tried talking with him from the other side of the door of an apartment unit where he was holding two hostages.

But the police spokesman said the talks eventually "just fell apart."

So far, the gunman's motives remain unknown.

"We think this may have been an angry man doing random shooting perhaps," said another police spokesman Carl Zogby.

"We're going to try to figure out why this happened here."

Officers are still investigating the motive and identifying the gunman and victims.

The manager of the West 46th Street apartment building and his wife were reportedly among those killed by the gunman.

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