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Man arrested after firing shot in TV station DENVER (AP) - A man walked into a television station lobby with a gun Wednesday, fired a shot and demanded that a videotape he carried be broadcast. No one was injured.
Most people working at KUSA-TV were evacuated during the half-hour incident, but programming was never affected.
The gunman surrendered outside the building.
Witnesses said the gunman never revealed his motives or what was on the videotape. People who saw parts of the tape said it made no sense.
The man entered the station lobby about 8:45 a.m. and fired one shot into a window, the station said in a statement.
Shirley Kirkman, an engineering administrator for the station, was in the lobby when the man fired a shot and ordered people to leave.
``We believed him and took off running,'' Ms. Kirkman said.
Jim Blecha, a free-lance photographer, said he and a receptionist were alone with the gunman after others fled the lobby.
Blecha said the gunman ordered him to take the videotape to the studio and have it played on the air, threatening to harm the receptionist if he did not do so.
The gunman was arrested when he ran out of the building, said police spokeswoman Virginia Lopez.
The man's identity was not released.
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