Fired employee wounds 3, kills self in Calif.
SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (AP) — A disgruntled employee firing a pistol seriously wounded three co-workers at a menu printing plant Monday before killing himself as a SWAT team entered the building, authorities said.
The man, about 67, entered Kenyon Press shortly after 9 a.m., walked past a superior and shot three co-workers with a semiautomatic handgun, police Capt. Mary Risinger said.
The business owner told police the man had indicated he was upset about a reduction in work affecting all employees, Risinger said. It was not known how long the gunman had worked there or when the cutback was announced.
"The employees recently had their hours cut back," Risinger said. "So he was upset about that, about not having enough work."
The names of the shooter and victims weren't released. The three people wounded were men in their 50s, said Valarie Carlomagno, secretary to the police chief.
A dozen workers were in the business at the time. A female worker locked herself in a room and called 911 when the shooting started. By the time police arrived some employees, including two of the wounded, had escaped. Officers got the other employees and the remaining wounded man out of the building.
Ray Luna watched the chaos and fleeing workers from a construction business where he works across the street.
"Some of them were running from the back of the building. The other ones were coming out from the front door," said Luna, 34. "And the cops were pulling them out with guns drawn and frisking them down."
One of the wounded had a torso injury and another had an arm injury, said Luna, whose own workplace was evacuated. "It was pretty scary. At any point we were ready to hit the deck," he said.
The SWAT operation was conducted by a team from neighboring Long Beach.
Kenyon Press, which makes custom designed menus, has customer service personnel, copywriters, designers, illustrators, proofreaders, prepress, press and bindery/manufacturing workers. Its clientele includes Las Vegas casinos and hotel chains, according to its website.
Signal Hill, a city of about 11,000, is 20 miles south of Los Angeles, surrounded by the port city of Long Beach.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-05-workplace-shooting_N.htm
SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (AP) — A disgruntled employee firing a pistol seriously wounded three co-workers at a menu printing plant Monday before killing himself as a SWAT team entered the building, authorities said.
The man, about 67, entered Kenyon Press shortly after 9 a.m., walked past a superior and shot three co-workers with a semiautomatic handgun, police Capt. Mary Risinger said.
The business owner told police the man had indicated he was upset about a reduction in work affecting all employees, Risinger said. It was not known how long the gunman had worked there or when the cutback was announced.
"The employees recently had their hours cut back," Risinger said. "So he was upset about that, about not having enough work."
The names of the shooter and victims weren't released. The three people wounded were men in their 50s, said Valarie Carlomagno, secretary to the police chief.
A dozen workers were in the business at the time. A female worker locked herself in a room and called 911 when the shooting started. By the time police arrived some employees, including two of the wounded, had escaped. Officers got the other employees and the remaining wounded man out of the building.
Ray Luna watched the chaos and fleeing workers from a construction business where he works across the street.
"Some of them were running from the back of the building. The other ones were coming out from the front door," said Luna, 34. "And the cops were pulling them out with guns drawn and frisking them down."
One of the wounded had a torso injury and another had an arm injury, said Luna, whose own workplace was evacuated. "It was pretty scary. At any point we were ready to hit the deck," he said.
The SWAT operation was conducted by a team from neighboring Long Beach.
Kenyon Press, which makes custom designed menus, has customer service personnel, copywriters, designers, illustrators, proofreaders, prepress, press and bindery/manufacturing workers. Its clientele includes Las Vegas casinos and hotel chains, according to its website.
Signal Hill, a city of about 11,000, is 20 miles south of Los Angeles, surrounded by the port city of Long Beach.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-03-05-workplace-shooting_N.htm
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