Florida Shooting: 7 Dead In Hostage Standoff [VIDEO]

Early Saturday a gunman killed six people overnight at a Florida apartment complex before police shot him dead in a shootout authorities said.

A tenant went on a shooting rampage at a Florida apartment building, killing six people before a SWAT team killed him and rescued two neighbors he was holding hostage on Saturday, police said.

The standoff began on Friday evening during an argument between the gunman and the husband and wife who ran the apartment complex. Their bodies were among the six found after the SWAT team moved in on Saturday morning, police said.

The landlords, 78-year-old Italo Pisciotti and 68-year-old Samira Pisciotti, went to the unit to discuss a problem with the gunman, who opened fire and killed them both, their daughter, Shamira Pisciotti, told the Miami Herald.

City police spokesman Sgt. Eddie Rodriguez said the man barricaded himself in an apartment in Hialeah, a Miami suburb, where he was holding a man and a woman hostage.

Hialeah police received a call at 6:30 p.m. of a shooting.

After negotiations failed, a SWAT team entered the dwelling, rescued the hostages and killed the gunman, who fired on them, police said.

Officers went through the apartment complex and found several bodies. One was across the street, and Rodriguez said that victim might have died from a stray bullet. The victims are three women and three men, Rodriguez said.

The apartment complex in the blue-collar, mostly Hispanic community housed about 90 families.

The shooters name has not been released to the public yet and although it has been discovered that he was not a resident of the complex it appears his mother is said Carl Zogby of the Hialeah Police Department.