The 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis occurred on April 4, 1991, in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_California , when four people en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage_situation at a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Guys ! electronics store located near the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_Mall , after botching a prior robbery. During the hostage crisis, three hostages as well as three of the four hostage-takers were killed. The fourth hostage-taker was captured by authorities. An additional fourteen hostages were injured during the crisis. To this day, the 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis remains the largest hostage rescue operation in U.S. history, with over fifty hostages being held at gunpoint.