Atlanta police end standoff with armed man outside synagogue

May 7, 1998
Web posted at: 9:22 p.m. EDT (0122 GMT)

ATLANTA (CNN) -- Police used a grenade to end a seven-hour standoff Thursday with a man apparently obsessed with right-wing conspiracies he learned about on the Internet.

Responding to a fire alarm at The Temple synagogue in midtown Atlanta, police arrived to find Charles Morgan, 49, of Kingston, Georgia, intermittently driving his truck around and yelling about conspiracies.

He had a shotgun taped to his chest with the barrel pointing at his chin.

The standoff ended when police fired a concussion grenade -- an explosion fired overhead meant to distract the person below -- then rushed up and subdued Morgan with a shock device. Morgan was then taken to Grady Memorial Hospital for mental evaluation.

Police reported finding printouts from Web sites of various right-wing groups inside the truck.

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