Another office shooting. This time in Alabama.

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Title says it all. Just heard it on our local news.

-- Reporter (reporting@alabama.com), August 05, 1999

Answers

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/pellham990805.html

probably won't be a hyperlink, but i guess you can cut and paste...

i think towards the end of the year, all the psychos will come out. especially the bombers... there will be huge crowds everywhere, and for those malcontents looking for a time to "get back at society", this will be their time....

-- The artist formerly known as SuperLurker (Slfsl@yahoo.com), August 05, 1999.


Reuters is reporting:

"Local television stations reported that the man arrested in the Pelham incident had been fired and that one of the people he shot was his former boss. "

(Somehow I wonder if everyone oughta be wearing the new Columbine High School badges bearing one word: "Respect." Moral of the story: if you have to fire someone do it very, very carefully.)

:(

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), August 05, 1999.


What is the body count??



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@It's ALL going away in Januaty.com), August 05, 1999.


K. Stevens, your a sick, doomer asswipe. What's the body count? ....

jerk

-- (It's all gone away@ for KS. already), August 05, 1999.


Unions and liberals/socialists have succeeded in convincing most people that a job is a right, an entitlement, instead of a mutual agreement between employee and employer. Which either may terminate at will.

So, naturally, when someone takes away something one regards as a "right" one tends to get pissed. If really pissed and/or bent, then "boom"!

The long term solution is found in classical (not modern) liberalism (now known as libertarianism) theory of rights.

The short term solution (and also long term) is "let everyone be armed." Granted, there would be an "adjustment" period when this is implemented, but the "hotheads" would soon be weeded out.

-- A (A@AisA.com), August 05, 1999.



8/5/99 -- 4:01 PM

Three slain as gunman opens fire at businesses where he worked

PELHAM, Ala. (AP) - A man shot two co-workers to death at his company's office Thursday morning and then killed a third person at a business where he used to work, a burst of workplace violence just one week after the Atlanta office massacre.

The 34-year-old suspect was arrested shortly after the shootings, when police spotted him on nearby Interstate 65 and forced him to pull over. He briefly scuffled with officers, and a gun was found in his car.

The suspect's identity was withheld while authorities prepared to file murder charges. The motive was unclear.

Pelham, a suburb of about 10,000 people in the wooded hills south of Birmingham, is a mix of upscale subdivisions, commercial districts and rural farmland spotted with businesses.

Pelham Police Chief Allan Wade said the suspect worked at Ferguson Enterprises, a heating and air conditioning company where the first two victims were shot to death. They were identified as Lee Holbrooks, 32, and Christopher Yancy, 28.

Police arrived at Ferguson at 7:04 a.m. Officers were still securing the crime scene 13 minutes later when dispatchers got a second emergency call - this time about a shooting at Post Airgas Inc., a company that sells helium, oxygen and other gases several miles from Ferguson Enterprises.

The third victim, Terry Jarvis, 39, was found at Post Airgas.

Wade said the gunman at Post Airgas matched the description of the suspect who fled Ferguson Enterprises and whose car was seen entering I-65.

The suspect is from Billingsley, a rural town 50 miles south of Pelham, Wade said.

The shootings came one week after frustrated investor Mark O. Barton killed nine people and wounded 13 others at two brokerage firms in Atlanta in one of the worst office massacres in United States history.

Fred Herder, a day trader who had worked with Barton and was wounded in his rampage, was released from the hospital Wednesday and found the Pelham shootings a troubling echo of Atlanta.

``It's really frightening that all of a sudden that someone is copying this,'' he said. ``I can't believe some idiot has started to copy it.''



-- pollys don't like facts (sorry@sh*t.happens), August 05, 1999.


On the contrary, Pollies DO love facts. That is why Doomers have such a weak case.

In any event, a more civilzed fact to be gleaned might be... "what were the victims names?, and where can I send a donation to help them?"

Not, What's the body count??...is that really the first thing that pops into your mind KS?

Deranged doomer minds think alike though, so I won't hold my breath for a civilized comment.

-- (K.Stevens@Nominee.for Sick Asshole of the Year Award), August 05, 1999.


Flint is from the Birmingham area.....

You don't suppose...

-- Elbow Grease (LBO Grise@aol.com), August 05, 1999.


Did anyone see anything about this on TV? I've been confined to the house lately, and I've had the TV on more than usual, but I haven't heard a word about this. Surely the media would be blathering about it.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), August 06, 1999.

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