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 »
Category: Workplace Violence
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,
COLLEEN LONG and JULIE WATSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 07/01 — A portrait of an angry doctor seeking revenge on the medical professionals he believed turned their backs on him emerged Saturday as a New York hospital began to recover from his assault-weapon rampage that left one doctor dead,
ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) 04/04 — One potential bidder on President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico wanted to know if authorities would rush to help if workers came under “hostile attack.”
ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and BEN FINLEY, Associated Press ROANOKE, Va. (AP) 10/26 — The man who authorities say fatally shot a former co-worker and wounded three others before killing himself at a rail car factory in Virginia was described by neighbors as a good friend and hard worker who showed no signs of violence.
ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and BEN FINLEY, Associated Press ROANOKE, Va. (AP) 10/25 — A refugee from Kenya killed one former co-worker, wounded three others and then killed himself Tuesday in a workplace shooting that authorities are still trying to unravel in Virginia,