rolling disgruntled shootings thread 2010

Oh we did that already
Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Gunman kills three in New Mexico office shooting

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Gun (file photo) Police said the gunman was a former employee of Emcore

A 37-year-old gunman has killed three people before shooting himself at an office building in Albuquerque, in the US state of New Mexico, police say.

Another four people were injured at the offices of technology manufacturer Emcore, in what local police said was a domestic violence-related incident.

Police at first said the man had killed five others but later revised the toll.

Officials said the gunman, who opened fire just before 0930 local time (1530 GMT), was a former Emcore employee.

His ex-wife is also believed to work for the company.

It is unclear whether she was killed or injured in the incident.

People living and working in the area were warned by police to stay indoors for several hours.

RIP RAOUL MOAT YOU LEGEND

15,800 people like this?

Don't you mean 20,913?

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Company: At least 3 shot at Conn. beer distributor

(AP) – 35 minutes ago

MANCHESTER, Conn. — A company executive says a warehouse worker who had been called in to resign opened fire at a beer distributor in Connecticut and at least three people were shot.

It was not immediately clear whether anyone was killed in the shooting Tuesday morning in Manchester, about 10 miles east of Hartford.

The executive, Brett Hollander of Hartford Distributors, says the company is "just trying to figure out who's shot, who's not accounted for." He says 50 to 70 people were inside and that a fire at the warehouse was out.

South Windsor police Sgt. Scott Custer would only say that several people are "down" and did not say how many were hurt or how badly.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Authorities say several people have been shot at a beer distribution company in Connecticut.

South Windsor police Sgt. Scott Custer says several people were injured Tuesday morning at Hartford Distributors Inc. in Manchester, about 10 miles east of Hartford. He would only say that several people are "down" and did not say how many people were hurt or how badly.

Custer says his agency, police in other surrounding towns and state authorities have been called to the scene.

a warehouse worker who had been called in to resign

now that's disgruntled!

Don't know how much disgruntlement was involved but

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A masked man armed with an assault-style rifle fired dozens of shots at a birthday party at a home in western Indianapolis early Tuesday, killing two people and wounding six before fleeing, police said.

Around 30 people were attending the barbecue when the shooting happened shortly after midnight, Indianapolis police Lt. Jeff Duhamell said. A motive was not immediately known.

A man and a woman died at the scene and six people were taken to the hospital in stable condition, including one partygoer who had been shot in the neck and another who was shot in the back, Duhamell said.

"We're talking at least 25-30 rounds from a high-powered rifle, so although eight people were shot, it could've been a lot worse," he said.

He did not have details of the firearm used in the attack except that it was an assault-style rifle, "an AK or SKS."

Duhamell said the gunman had been wearing a ski mask, and that he fired from the street and then a car before fleeing. It wasn't clear if a getaway driver was also involved.

^that ones messed up but doesn't seem workplace-related

it was reported 7 dead and now they say 9, for the conn. one

This is completely buried in the Washpost and NYT websites. I had to search for the link in the Washpost website. Small font, tugged in with other national stories "below the fold." Sad commentary really.

Nine people have died in a shooting at a beer distribution warehouse in Manchester, Connecticut.

A warehouse driver, identified as 34-year-old Omar Thornton, who was asked to resign his job with Hartford Distributors, refused and then opened fire.

The gunman apparently turned the gun on himself after killing eight others.

Joanne Hannah's daughter, Kristi, dated Thornton for eight years. She tells NECN that every man has their breaking point -- after he had dealt with racial harassment at work.

"We are shocked," said Hannah.

Governor Rell issued the following statement on the workplace shooting this morning at Hartford Distributors in Manchester:

"Our hearts and prayers go out to the employees and families of the victims. In the wake of this tragedy, we are all left asking the same questions: How could someone do this? Why did they do this?

"It was a senseless act of violence that has left us all shaken and reminds us just how precious and fragile life truly is."

http://www.courant.com/community/manchester/hc-omar-thornton-workplace-shooting-020100803,0,837990.story

A woman who knows the driver who fatally shot at least eight co-workers and himself at a Connecticut beer distribution company says he had complained of racial harassment at work.

Joanne Hannah says her daughter dated Omar Thornton for the past eight years. She says her daughter had no indication he planned anything violent Tuesday morning after he was asked to resign from Hartford Distributors and refused.

Hannah says Thornton, a black man, had complained to his superiors about a picture of a noose and a racial epithet in a bathroom at the distributor. Her daughter told her the supervisors did not respond to his complaints.

This is fucking sad. :(

Hannah says Thornton called his own mother after the rampage "to say goodbye and that he loved everybody."

Damn. That last sentence was supposed to be part of the news story quote.

ugh

Manchester Sgt. Sandy Ficara confirmed that Omar Thornton was the shooter. Police believe his fatal gunshot wound was self-inflicted, he said.

"It's one of those workplace scenes that happens all over the country," he said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20012557-504083.html

"He said, 'I killed the five racists that was there bothering me,'" said Will Holliday, Thornton's uncle. "He said, 'That's it. The cops are going to come in so I'm going to take care of it myself.'"

"It's got nothing to do with race," Roos said. "This is a disgruntled employee who shot a bunch of people."

3 non-racists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXwE6OFwfEk

Something is going on at the Discovery Channel HQ in Maryland. Friend of mine who is a producer there got out early, but it's ongoing:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/01/police-reports-of-armed-man-at-discovery-channel-headquarters/?hpt=T2Thank

Yeah, someone I know who works there reports being okay and evacuated. It's some sort of environmental protest.

Maybe we know the same person . . . that would be weird.

My friend's in HR. Anyway, looks like there's more talk here:

Discovery Channel's List of Greatest Americans

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iFK9CR8fFn0QDUYxm6ST6jHN_lQQD9I4UTM80

A US man has killed himself after shooting dead five people, including his wife and stepdaughter, in an argument about his breakfast.

Stanley Neace, 47, went on the killing spree in a trailer park in Jackson, rural Breathitt County, Kentucky.

He chased his wife into a neighbouring trailer where he shot her, her daughter and three witnesses, reports say.

State troopers found Mr Neace dead at the porch of his trailer, slumped over his own gun.

Mr Neace flew into a rage when his wife Sandra, 54, brought him some eggs for breakfast, a relative of the neighbours he killed said.

Mrs Neace's daughter Sandra Strong, 28, was also killed.
Commotion

The other victims were named as neighbours Dennis Turner, 31, Teresa Fugate, 30, and Tammy Kilborn, 40.

Ms Fugate was shot in front of her seven-year-old daughter, who Mr Neace spared.

"Her daughter said, 'Please, please don't shoot me,' and he said, 'All right, you can leave,' and she ran out," Ms Fugate's sister Sherri Anne Robinson told the Associated Press.

Mrs Kiborn was another neighbour who stepped out onto her porch during the commotion, reports said.

Mr Neace apparently waited an hour for the police to arrive before turning the gun on himself, police heard the shot as they drove up to the trailer.

Other neighbours had fled in terror during the rampage.

Breathitt county is Kentucky's rural eastern region, where gun ownership numbers are high.

"Over eggs? I thought that was crazy. I mean just because his eggs weren't hot?" Ms Robinson said.

:(

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=11654104

Doctor Shot at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore

Baltimore police say a doctor has been shot at Johns Hopkins hospital and the shooter is holed up inside.

Police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the gunman has barricaded himself in a room.

Guglielmi says the hospital is being evacuated.

He said he doesn't know the doctor's condition.

http://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/24678435874

Source says man was disgruntled about mother's spine surgery, shot her doctor
27 minutes ago via ÜberTwitter

http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/photo/2010-09/56191737.jpg

"The doctor will be OK," Guglielmi said. "He's in the best place in the world — at Johns Hopkins hospital."

PR gone too far

wow.

also want to adopt 7 y/o girl above

BALTIMORE – Baltimore police say a gunman who wounded a doctor at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore has shot and killed himself and a relative during a standoff with police.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tells The Associated Press that the suspect and his relative died in a hospital room.

The standoff lasted more than 2 hours.

This 8th floor is the last place I saw my mother alive. The whole building is an incredibly stressful place to be.

He shot his own mother because he was upset about her surgery? Christ, what the fuck.

If she was on the 8th floor, she was dying anyway.

hmm

is the eighth floor like the "death floor" or something, for terminal patients?

No, thoracic surgery for cancer patients = not a good scene. The building is oncology.

German news media are reporting that an as-yet unidentified woman opened fire in a hospital in Lörrach, Germany. Several dead and wounded.

^(opened fire...this afternoon.)

Apparently, the woman emerged armed from a residential building where moments before an explosion killed two, then opened fire on people in the nearby hospital. Really bizarre.

'Gun deaths' at German hospital

At least two people have been killed and one seriously injured in a shooting at a hospital in Germany, reports say.

The incident took place in the south-western town of Loerrach, close to the French and Swiss borders.

A woman reportedly walked into the Saint Elizabeth hospital and started firing with an automatic weapon. She was said to be one of the dead.

Police said they had sealed off the area and the situation was now under control.

The incident took place at about 1800 local time (1600 GMT). Police arrived within 15 minutes of the shooting but it was unclear how long the woman had been in the hospital grounds.

The BBC's Tristana Moore in Berlin says police are also investigating reports of an explosion at a building opposite the hospital, where two bodies were said to have been found.

Officers are investigating whether there is a connection between the two incidents.

The identity of the woman is not yet known and no immediate motive has so far been given for the shooting.

It's a pediatric hospital, in case you needed to increase your horror.

Two dudes in Austin:

http://galleries.statesman.com/gallery/shooting-ut-campus-092810/#129201

We missed the Seton Hall shooting, up in New Jersey.

I guess miss misery works at UT in Austin. Looks like they're in lockdown. She heard 7 people dead but news reports are saying only the first shooter.

She does yeah, I was just coming here to say that she's a fair bit away from the incident if anyone was worried about her.

I reckon the 7 dead she'd heard is the kind of nutty chinese whispers that go around when something happens (bloke was stabbed at the end of my street a few weeks ago outside a nursery school, it was all over twitter that someone was in the school stabbing the kids/holding them hostage, etc etc)

yeah i figured that 7 'shots fired' may have turned into 7 people dead by the time it got to her.

One dead, the shooter, who killed himself. No other injuries. They're looking for a second suspect. Campus is no longer locked down, everybody is leaving. I work in a building on campus a couple blocks from the library. Crazy morning.