By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) 07/19 — Police on Friday were investigating at the blackened, gutted building in Kyoto where a man raging about theft set a fire that killed 33 people in a beloved animation studio,
Category: Workplace Violence
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) 07/18 — A man screaming “You die!” burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday,
By NIC COURY AND ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press MORGAN HILL, Calif. (AP) 06/26 — A man who had just been fired from a Northern California Ford dealership shot and killed two employees and then killed himself Tuesday evening,
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) 06/05 — A medical examiner says the man who killed 12 people in Virginia Beach died from multiple gunshot wounds in a shootout with police officers.Read more »
By BEN FINLEY and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) 06/02 — The gunman who attacked his colleagues at a Virginia Beach government office building resigned by email hours before the shooting,
CHICAGO (AP) 02/22 — More than 75 percent of the people who received gun license revocations last year in Illinois ignored the notices, Illinois State Police said.Read more »
By DON BABWIN and CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press AURORA, Ill. (AP) 02/17 — An initial background check five years ago failed to flag an out-of-state felony conviction that would have prevented a man from buying the gun he used to kill five co-workers and wound six other people,
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER and AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press AURORA, Ill. (AP) 02/16 — The frantic calls started pouring in at 1:24 p.m. A gunman was shooting people inside a sprawling manufacturing warehouse in Aurora,
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER and AMANDA SEITZ, Associated Press AURORA, Ill. (AP) 02/15 — A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago on Friday,Read more »
By DAVID McFADDEN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) 09/21 — A woman working a temporary job at a drugstore warehouse in Maryland got into an argument at work Thursday morning and began shooting colleagues,
By TODD RICHMOND and SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) 09/20 — Authorities said they still don’t know why an employee at a Wisconsin software company went to his office with a pistol and extra ammunition and began firing on his colleagues,
By JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) 07/28 — A 74-year-old man ranting about a broken phone drove his car through the glass storefront of a Verizon Wireless store in North Carolina,
By BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) 06/29 — First-degree murder charges were filed Friday against a man with a grudge against Maryland’s capital newspaper after police said he shot his way into the newsroom,
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and RYAN NAKASHIMA, Associated Press SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) 04/04 — A woman who believed she was being suppressed by YouTube and told her family members she “hated”
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 12/23 — A disgruntled mail carrier facing dismissal has been charged with aggravated murder for fatally shooting his supervisor at a suburban Ohio post office and with murder for killing a postmaster outside of her apartment complex.Read more »
By JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) 10/20 — The man charged with shooting five co-workers at a Maryland granite company this week, killing three of them,Read more »
By JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press EDGEWOOD, Md. (AP) 10/19 — A man with a lengthy criminal past who showed up for work at a countertop company on Wednesday and shot five of his co-workers has been arrested,
By JULIET LINDERMAN , Associated Press EDGEWOOD, Md. (AP) 10/18 — A man with a lengthy criminal past who was fired from a job earlier this year for punching a colleague showed up for work at a countertop company on Wednesday and shot five of his co-workers,
By The Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of beheading a co-worker was convicted of first-degree murder Friday for the 2014 attack that one witness said was “something that people shouldn’t have to see.”
By RUSS BYNUM , Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) 08/26 — The man who police say killed a Charleston chef inside a restaurant filled with tourists had been convicted of violent crimes at least twice since the 1980s and struggled with mental illness,