4 shots fired

[Karl F]

The shots fired at the police department narrowly missed hitting a group of civilians that was meeting at the station, said Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe during a press conference that ended at 11:30 a.m. today.

After the shooting at the police station, Hill apparently called his mother in Maine and told her that he wanted to take someone hostage, then kill police and himself, O'Keefe said.

Hill's mother contacted her brother, who is a police officer in an undisclosed Massachusetts police department, then called the Eastham police, O'Keefe said.

After several phone calls between Eastham police and Hill's mother and uncle, Hill's whereabouts was determined and two police officers, one from Truro and one from Orleans were dispatched to the scene, O'Keefe said.

O'Keefe refused to elaborate on what took place at the scene once the officers arrived and Hill was shot.

Hill was found with a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun that had 34 rounds in it and was cocked, O'Keefe said. Hill was wearing a bullet proof vest at the time of the shooting.