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Apparently, Leaf stopped talking and began threatening to kill Ms. Hart and the boy if the police did not give into his demand. Both times the negotiator was able to calm him down, but was concerned that if he lost control of Leaf again he might kill the hostages.
The only demand he made, according to Mr. August, was for the helicopter “to fly him south, somewhere where there were mountains. He never got any more specific than that.”
That concern for the safety of the hostages appears to be the catalyst for the decision to employ the helicopter ruse to get Leaf out of the house.
Mr. August added that Leaf had shown “a propensity for violence before,’ through his repeated beatings of Ms. Hart, his abduction of her and the boy at gunpoint, his pointing his gun at the agents who confronted him and the fact that, during the standoff, he had fired three shots. Therefore, the FBI was convinced that he was capable of carrying out his threat to kill the hostages.
Mr. August said that no one was hurt by Leafs shots, and that the FBI was unsure of what he w'as shooting at.
Once out of the house. Leaf was almost certainly going to be killed. There was no intention on the part of the officials in control to allow' him aboard the helicopter. If they had, law' enforcement would have lost control of the situation.
Only by laying down his weapon and releasing the hostages could he have been spared. And, apparently, he refused to do that.
As the FBI helicopter he thought would spirit him away rose out of the grass without him, Charles Leafs life, and his wife and son’s ordeal, ended in the single sharp “crack” of a marksman’s rifle.
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