Center for Personal Protection & Safety
Workplace Violence Events
2009 – Present
Event
1.
2.
1
A 49-year-old and a 21-year-old
woman went to the Wal-Mart
customer service desk. When
they were not helped, the two
became upset and walked
away. As they proceeded to
the exit, the 71-year-old
greeter asked them for a
receipt for their merchandise.
The women then began yelling
obscenities and racial slurs at
the man.
They pushed a
shopping cart into him and
grabbed him by his throat.
Another employee stepped in
to stop the assault. One of the
women ran back to the
customer
service
desk
threatening to punch a female
worker in the face. She then
yelled three times, “I’m going
to blow Wal-Mart up!” Police
were called.
A 26-year-old man entered
Wal-Mart and went to the
Subway restaurant located just
inside the entrance. He spoke
to his ex-girlfriend, who was
eating at the Subway, and told
her he was going to shoot
himself. He left the restaurant
and the store. He then pulled
out a handgun he had
concealed and shot and killed
himself near the entry/exit
doors
of
the
store.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Offenders:
Toni Duncan
Ashley Jackson
Elyria, OH
Mar 11
1 Injured
Shooter: James
H. Humphries III
Mar 11
1 Dead (Gunman)
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
Individual(s)
Involved
Around 7:00 AM, 15-year-old
Chance Jackson was with other
students by a side door in the
cafeteria when the shooter
walked in and shot him. He is
in serious condition after being
shot twice in the abdomen. The
teen suspected in the shooting
had been expelled from the
school last week. There are
unconfirmed reports that the
suspected shooter made a
veiled threat on his Facebook
page.
A classmate of the
suspected shooter at claims
her sister had notified the
principal about a potential
shooting the day before it took
place.
Shooter:
15-Year-Old
Student
Martinsville
West Middle
School
Martinsville, IN
4.
Lyle Bernard Parrish went to
Carolina Crossing Vet, where
his girlfriend works, and asked
her to meet him outside. When
Katryn Denise Bridges walked
out, he shot her in the stomach
and fled the scene. He then
fled the scene, drove home,
and shot himself.
Shooter:
Lyle Bernard
Parrish
Benson, NC
Mar 11
1 Killed (gunman); 1
Injured
5.
A 27-year-old employee shot
his boss, 39-year-old Nasser
Alkattan, in the stomach in the
Build Direct Flooring parking lot
where the two had worked
together for years. Alkattan's
family said he gave Christian a
job when he was homeless, but
he was going to fire him
because they said he borrowed
money that he couldn't repay.
They also said Christian was
slacking off at work.
Shooter:
Rocky Christian
Apopka, FL
Mar 11
1 Killed
3.
2
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Date
Resulting Outcome
|
Mar 11
1 Wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
6.
7.
8.
3
A 52-year-old employee of Fay
Innovative Waste Solutions left
the business following a heated
argument with the company's
owner. He then returned with
a handgun around 2:30 PM,
shooting the owner in his office
before allegedly turning the
gun on himself. Two other
employees were there during
the shooting, but neither was
injured. The owner was a
pastor at Trinity Baptist Church
for the past 14 years.
A gunman fired shots at U.S.
military personnel on a bus at
Frankfurt Intl Airport. The
airmen were on their way to a
deployment
when
the
shooting took place.
The
German authorities have the
shooter in custody.
A judge pulled a gun on a
crutch-swinging defendant who
went wild in a crowded rural
courtroom after being found
guilty of harassment. A police
officer shot the 25-year-old
man who had appeared in
court on a domestic violence
charge. The police say that the
man, who was angry at getting
fined $800, attacked the judge
with his crutches and tried to
grab a gun from someone in
the courtroom.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Darrell Hester
Athens, TN
Mar 11
2 Killed (including
gunman)
Shooter:
Arif Uka
Frankfurt
International
Airport, GE
Mar 11
2 Killed; 2 Injured
Offender:
Bryant Ford
Goodwater, AL
Feb 11
1 Injured
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
9.
10.
11.
4
The principal of an elementary
school in Northern California
was shot to death. The 44year-old gunman was a
custodial employee of the
school. The shooting was
believed to have stemmed
from a dispute between the
two men. The suspect may
have confronted the principal
over some perceived grievance.
The shooting happened just
before noon in the parking lot
of an office complex. A fiftytwo-year old man arrived at his
estranged wife’s workplace,
Exam 1, where she worked as
an office manager. As she
walked outside to meet him, he
shot her multiple times in the
chest and torso area with a
high-caliber weapon. He then
fatally shot himself. Police
learned through witnesses that
Billy had never shown up to the
workplace and caused trouble
before.
Police launched an investigation into a 50-year-old man
after receiving a report that he
threatened a co-worker at
Quality Subaru, the car
dealership where he worked.
He had been behaving oddly
and told his family that he
wanted to shoot a co-worker.
Police searched the man’s
home, where they discovered a
cache of 75 firearms, including
an Uzi machine gun, AR-15, and
AK-47 assault rifles.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
John Luebbers
Placerville, CA
Feb 11
Shooter:
Billy Willard
Ridgeland, MS
Jan 11
2 killed (including
gunman)
Offender:
John Macombe
Meriden, CT
Jan 11
WPV Prevented
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Gunman:
Robert Butler, Jr.
Millard South
High School
Omaha, NE
Jan 11
2 killed (including
gunman); 1 injured
Gunman:
Wendy Cosby
Naidas
Charlotte, NC
Dec 10
No injuries
Shooter:
Clay A. Duke
Panama City, FL
Dec 10
1 killed (gunman)
12.
13.
14.
5
A 17-year-old was summoned
to the office at Millard South
High School. A school security
camera caught him driving
across a football field. The
Assistant Principal suspended
him for 19 days. Butler was
escorted out of the school. He
returned with a handgun. He
shot the 58-year-old administrator, mortally wounding her,
and then fired on the Principal.
Police found the gunman 35
minutes later in a parking lot,
dead from a self-inflicted
gunshot.
A woman distraught over her
financial situation walked into
the lobby of a TV station during
its evening news broadcast,
pulled out what turned out to
be an unloaded gun and put it
to her head. The station went
off the air for about an hour
and the building was evacuated
and locked down. No one was
taken hostage/injured and
police took the woman into
custody.
During a Bay District school
board meeting, a gunman
calmly walked to a podium,
spray painted a red "V" with a
circle around it on a wall and
opened fire at school board
members, sending people
scrambling and diving for
cover. A security guard soon
ran in, exchanged shots with
and wounded the man who
then killed himself.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
15.
16.
17.
18.
6
At least 2 armed men walked
into a Barber Shop and opened
fire. One customer had a
weapon and returned fire,
sparking a gunfight. The fight
spilled into the parking lot of
the strip mall, where a 30-yearold woman died after being
struck while putting her toddler
into a car seat. A second victim
died Wednesday.
A man walked into the store,
demanded cash, and then shot
the clerk. He dashed outside
after the shooting and shot two
men who were sitting in a car
parked in front of the
restaurant. He then fled. The
shooting victim was shot
protecting two of his female
co-workers.
A man who was recently fired
from a Florida hospital fired
shots inside its cafeteria and
then barricaded himself in a
room before killing himself. No
one else was injured. The man
had been threatening people
and pointing the gun at them
inside the preparation area in
the cafeteria. He was found
dead from a self-inflicted
gunshot wound after a 3 1/2hour standoff.
At Marinette High School, a
gunman, who had been
armed with a semiautomatic
.22
pistol
and
a
semiautomatic 9mm pistol,
shot
himself
as
police
breached the room where he
held 23 students and one
teacher captive for several
hours before freeing them
unharmed.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Lonnie Orlando
Mitchell
Sacramento, CA
Dec 10
2 killed; 5 injured
Shooter:
Church’s Chicken
Decatur, GA
Dec 10
1 killed; 2 wounded
Shooter:
John Jack
Palm Bay, FL
Nov 10
1 killed (gunman)
Shooter:
Samuel Hengel
Nov 10
1 wounded
(gunman)
(15 years old)
Marinette, WI
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
19.
20.
21.
22.
7
A lone gunman drove to Kelly
Elementary School, got out of
his car and began shooting a
handgun at random at children
who were on the playground
during lunchtime recess. He
had extra bullets on his person
and carried a container of gas
with matches. No connection
between the suspect and Kelly
Elementary has been found to
exist.
Shots were fired at the
National Museum of Marine
Corps in Triangle, VA.
A
previous shooting at the
museum occurred in the early
morning on October 17. A
Pentagon incident happened
on October 19, also in the
morning. A US Coast Guard
Recruiting Office was also fired
upon. No one was reported
injured in any of the incidents.
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Brendan L.
O’Rourke
Vista, CA
Oct 10
2 wounded
Shooter:
At large
VA/Washington,
DC
Oct 10
No injuries
Two gunmen opened fire at a
post office in a rural West
Tennessee town, killing two
workers perhaps as part of an
attempted robbery. Police
reported the case involved
“disturbing violence.”
Shooter:
At Large
Henning, TN
A shooting has left one student
dead; two male students got
into an argument inside a dorm
and that's when one student
shot the other.
Shooter:
At Large
Mid Atlantic
Christian Univ
Elizabeth City,
NC
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Oct 10
2
killed
Oct 10
1
killed
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
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Event
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
23.
An ex-soldier walked into the
hospital's emergency room at
4 AM carrying two handguns, a
semiautomatic rifle, and a
semiautomatic version of a
submachine gun. He took a
medic hostage and headed to
the behavioral treatment wing
on the third floor. An Army
psychiatric nurse spotted the
gunman and approached him
to talk. That nurse was then
taken hostage along with a
behavioral health technician
who refused to allow the
gunman through a locked door
to the patient area. Military
police soon arrived and
surrounded the hospital. Army
investigators trained in hostage
negotiations worked their way
to the floor. In less than two
hours, they persuaded him to
put down his weapons and
surrender.
Shooter:
Name Not
Released
Winn Army
Hospital
Ft Stewart, GA
Sep 10
No Injuries
24.
A student was shot, receiving
multiple wounds, in a drive-by
shooting near a high school in
Contra Costa County.
The
shooting occurred near Deer
Valley High School. The suspect
was not a student in the
school. The entire Antioch
Unified School District went on
lockdown as a precaution.
Shooter:
Unknown
Antioch, CA
Sep 10
1 wounded
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
25.
26.
27.
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Following an altercation with
his wife, a man with a rifle
threatened to kill his motherin-law and sister-in-law. Police
set up surveillance when they
spotted the man drive by.
Following a high-speed police
pursuit, the vehicle crashed.
The man fled on foot to the
Creighton University Medical
Center. Witnesses reported an
armed,
despondent
man
making phone calls from a pay
phone. Witnesses said they
heard multiple gunshots in the
cafeteria. He was wounded by
police and later died. The
gunman’s mother said her son
walked for miles after crashing
his truck. She said he walked
with a gun to his head, intent
on donating his organs.
A vengeful firebug torched two
Domino's Pizza joints because
he was fired and also
unwittingly burned down a
neighborhood church.
The
former employee kept his
uniform and key after being
axed and sneaked into two
shops in recent weeks. He
then lit cardboard pizza boxes
to start a pair of massive fires.
A gunman wearing a ski mask
and brandishing an automatic
weapon sprayed the campus
with gunfire and then entered
the sixth floor Library at the
University of Texas-Austin and
fired several shots before
taking his own life. University
students, faculty and staff
members alerted by text
message, loudspeakers and an
online posting to stay indoors.
Depression is thought to have
been a factor in the shootings.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Jeffrey Layten
Creighton
University
Medical Center,
Omaha, NE
Sep 10
1 killed (gunman); 2
wounded
Arsonist:
Jamal Thomas
Bronx, NY
Sep 10
No injuries; $1
million in damages
Shooter:
Colton Tooley
University of TXAustin, Austin,
TX
Sep 10
1 killed (gunman by
self-inflicted
gunshot)
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
A Seton Hall University student
who attended an off-campus
party said the gunman stood
on her back as she lay on the
floor and didn't appear to be
targeting anyone during the
chaos.
She described the
Friday night party as a "typical
fraternity party.” The shooter
was kicked out of the party
when he refused to pay the
cover charge. A fight erupted
before the man was thrown
out. Seconds later he returned
with a handgun and started
shooting.
Shooter:
At Large
Seton Hall
University,
East Orange, NJ
Sep 10
1 killed; 4 injured
A 63-year-old retired USA Sgt
entered
the
crowded
shoppette, went to offices at
the rear of the store, and shot
a 44-year-old woman and
another woman in the head.
After the shooting, the gunman
tried to flee the shooting
scene.
Law Enforcement
personnel shot and killed him.
The gunman apparently had a
history of angry outbursts and
had been fired from a post
convenience store for chasing
an alleged beer thief, which
was against store policy.
Shooter:
Steven Kropf
Fort Bliss, El
Paso, TX
Sep 10
2 killed (including
shooter); 1 wounded
Event
28.
29.
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CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
30.
31.
11
A man was receiving some
upsetting news about the
condition of his mother just
outside the doorway of her
hospital room when he became
emotionally distraught. During
the conversation with the
doctor, the man pulled out a
small semiautomatic handgun
from his waist and fired a single
gunshot that struck the doctor.
He then ran into the room,
brandishing the gun. When
police entered the room later,
they found his mother dead in
her bed and the gunman
sprawled on the floor, mortally
wounded. The hospital sent
out an emergency text
message to alert their staff.
"Shooter incident on Nelson 8
at JHH," the alert said, “Stay in
your office or room and lock
doors until an all clear is
announced. Stay away from
windows. Wait for further
instruction."
A 15-year employee of Kraft
Foods was suspended. She was
escorted out of the building
and was outside for nine
minutes before coming back.
She drove her car through a
barrier and entered the
premises. She had a .357
magnum. She made her way to
the third-floor mixing room,
where she encountered at least
three of the employees. Two,
she shot and killed there in the
room. A third was also shot.
Most of the other 100 workers
inside were able to get out
safely. Seven employees were
trapped near the shooter, but
were freed by police. Police
disarmed the shooter and took
her into custody.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Paul Warren
Pardus
Arlington, VA
Sep 10
2 killed (including
shooter; 1 wounded)
Shooter:
Yvonne Hiller
Philadelphia, PA
Sep 10
2 killed; 1 wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
32.
33.
A
worker
entered
the
lunchroom
of
Americold
Logistics, a cold-storage food
warehouse in southeastern
Nebraska, and started firing a
handgun, wounding three
employees — including a
woman who was shot 11 times
— before going outside and
killing himself.
A man went to Baton Rouge
General Medical Center-Mid
City, argued with his 35-yearold estranged wife and her 49year-old boyfriend, and then
shot both of them. Garner's
wife and her boyfriend were at
the hospital visiting her
teenage son when the shooting
happened.
A
temporary
restraining order had just been
issued to keep Garner away
from his wife. A manhunt is
underway for the shooter.
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Sep 10
1 killed (gunman); 3
wounded
Shooter:
Darrell Garner
Baton Rouge, LA
Sep 10
2 wounded
Shooter:
James J. Lee
Silver Springs,
MD
Sep 10
1 killed (gunman)
Akouch Kashoual
Crete, NE
34.
A man carrying a gun entered
the Discovery Channel building
wearing metal canisters that
appeared to be explosive
devices. The gunman took
three people hostage in the
Discovery
Channel
headquarters building in suburban
Washington. Lee reportedly
has a history of protesting
outside the Discovery Channel
building and was arrested in
2008 for disorderly conduct.
Lee devoting himself to
stopping population growth
after he was laid off from his
job and started reading "My
Ishmael."
12
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
A Dallas woman told police
that God told her to shoot her
longtime co-worker at a
Carrollton
pest
control
business. The 48-year-old
woman was arrested on
suspicion of killing a McKinney
husband and father who was
described as a "friend to
anybody,"
including
the
woman accused of shooting
him once in the chest with a
handgun. She put the gun
down and sat in another coworker's office and waited for
police to arrive.
Shooter:
Theresa Gail
Robbins
Dallas, TX
Aug 10
1 killed
A gunman entered Sullivan
Central High School, engaging
in a standoff with a school
resource officer before being
shot by responding police
officers. The incident happened
shortly after students arrived
for class. The suspect allegedly
packed two loaded guns,
pointed one at the principal's
head and ignited a standoff
with the school resource
officer. He repeatedly asked
the location of a fire alarm.
The suspect is the brother of a
custodian at the school. When
police entered and ordered the
gunman to drop his weapon,
he allegedly pointed his
weapon in their direction. He
then pointed it back towards
the school resource officer,
prompting police to fire.
Shooter:
Thomas Richard
Cowan
Blountville, TN
Aug 10
1 killed (gunman)
35.
36.
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CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
37.
38.
14
A man entered a Mormon
church and killed a church
bishop
who
was
doing
paperwork between services.
A 42-year-old man was shot
when a gunman came in and
asked for a leader of the
congregation. The man was
directed to the victim and
fatally shot him. The suspect
apparently then called police
and identified himself as the
gunman. When police arrived
at his home, the suspect
engaged police and was killed
after being shot multiple times.
Reports reveal the gunman
may be a former member of
the church. The shooter
reportedly
went
through
delusional spells when he
blamed the Mormon church for
his troubles.
A gunman drove a Ford F-150
pickup pulling a trailer to a
police station and set it on fire
in an apparent attempt to draw
people out of the building.
Inside the trailer were wood
chips, roadside flares, gasoline,
and ammonia nitrate fertilizer,
the type used in the bombing
of the federal building in
Oklahoma City. Over 100 shell
casings were found in the area
and 23 windows were broken
in the building.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Kenneth James
Ward
Visalia, CA
Aug 10
2 killed (including
gunman)
Shooter:
Patrick Sharp
McKinney, TX
Aug 10
1 killed (gunman)
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
39.
40.
41.
15
A
driver
for
Hartford
Distributors went on a
rampage moments after he
was forced to resign when
confronted
with
video
evidence that he had been
stealing and reselling beer.
Thornton, who was black, had
complained
about
being
racially harassed at work;
Thornton had found a picture
of a noose and a racial epithet
hanging on a bathroom wall
where he had worked for
about two years. The shooter
calmly told a 911 operator that
it was "a racist place" and that
he "handled the problem" but
wished he had shot more
people. He then shot himself.
A domestic dispute caused a
man to open fire at an
Albuquerque
fiber
optics
manufacturing plant, killing
three people and wounding
four others before committing
suicide. The shooter targeted
his live-in girlfriend when he
opened fire at Emcore Corp.
A man went on a rampage
after his ex-girlfriend told him
their relationship was over. He
shot his ex-girlfriend with a 12gauge shotgun as she sat in her
car in the parking lot of the
Covidien plant at 7 AM. Earlier,
he shot and killed her new
boyfriend. He also shot and
blinded an unsuspecting police
officer who was sitting at a
roundabout. Just 12 minutes
earlier, he had telephoned
police to tell them he was
going to “shoot dead” one of
their officers. He later shot
himself during a six-hour
standoff with police.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Omar Thornton
Hartford, CT
Aug 10
9 killed (including
shooter); 2
wounded
Shooter:
Robert Reza
(former
employee)
Albuquerque,
NM
Jul 10
3 killed; 4 wounded
Shooter:
Alfonicia Gilbert
Augusta, GA
Jul 10
2 killed (including
shooter); 1 wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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43.
44.
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A shooting rampage killed 2
and left 2 critically injured
when a gunman rode his
bicycle to the De Taco
Restaurant.
The gunman
opened
fire
on
his
stepdaughter’s family, killing
her husband and son. She was
shot 10 times and another son
twice.
The gunman then
turned the gun on himself.
A corrections officer killed her
ex-girlfriend, a nurse’s aide,
outside a hospital. She then
went to a relative’s home,
where she killed her uncle,
wounded her 88-year-old
grandfather, and took a niece
hostage. Investigators believe
that Wolfe's shooting spree
was triggered by a failed
attempt to reconcile with her
ex-girlfriend and a dispute over
insurance money with her
relatives.
A gunman shot and killed 4
women at a South Florida
restaurant and wounded 3
others, all co-workers of his
wife, before killing himself.
The rampage began in a
parking lot as a domestic
dispute, where the man was
seen arguing with his wife. The
man shot the woman, then
walked into the restaurant and
started randomly firing at the
women inside. The suspect left
in one of the victim’s vehicles
and was later found dead from
a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Jimmy Schlager
San Bernardino,
CA
Jun 10
3 killed (including
shooter); 4 wounded
Shooter:
Kim Wolfe
East Meadows,
NY
Jun 10
2 killed; 1 wounded
Shooter:
Gerardo
Regalado
Hialeah, FL
Jun 10
5 killed (including
shooter); 3 wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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46.
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Four women were shot and
wounded at Hastings Books by
a man with a shotgun firing
from the coffee shop. A fifth
victim of the same shooter was
killed at a second location-Toby’s Bar. Gunman died from
a self-inflicted gunshot wound
at a third location. Gunman
was facing aggravated assault
charges in the stabbing of two
men at a park. He also was
charged
with
aggravated
assault after his girlfriend was
hit and threatened and was
placed on probation in 2008
after pleading guilty to
aggravated robbery.
3 women were shot and 1 died
after a gunman opened fire at
Parkwest Medical Center and
then killed himself. Ibssa
thought a doctor, who had
performed an appendectomy
on him at Parkwest in 2001,
had surgically implanted a
tracking device into his body.
Family members believe Ibssa
had gone off his medications.
The Ethiopian immigrant took a
cab to the hospital, entered the
facility looking for the doctor
and was told the doctor was
not there. That's when Ibssa
got back into the cab, and had
the driver take him to the
outpatient entrance, where the
shooting occurred.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Ross William
Muehlberger
Wichita Falls, KS
Apr 10
2 killed (including
shooter); 4 wounded
Shooter:
Abdo Ibssa
Knoxville, TN
Apr 10
2 killed (including
shooter); 3 wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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Police reported that three
shots had been fired from a red
Ford Mustang. The suspect
drove to the Wal-Mart along
the highway, where officers
confronted the man in the
parking lot. The gunman, who
had been wounded, ditched his
bullet-riddled Mustang and
headed toward the store
entrance carrying a longbarreled gun and a pistol.
Witnesses said at least eight
shots were fired during the
gunfight. An off-duty county
deputy, who was shopping
with his wife, saw the armed
man enter the store and
attempted to disarm him. The
gunman opened fire on the offduty officer. Police officers at
the scene shot and killed the
gunman.
An auditor, apparently angry
over a bad performance
evaluation after 19 years on
the job, used a shotgun to blast
through the front door of an
Indiana
Department
of
Workforce Development; malfunctioning shotgun shells
prevented him from taking
further shots.
Two financial advisors with
Smith Financial were shot at an
office suite inside a North
Dallas building. The shooter
was found with a self-inflicted
gunshot wound when police
arrived. He is believed to have
been a past client of the fatherson financial team and was
angry about financial dealings.
He yelled, “You’ve taken all my
money!” before he began
shooting. He had been sent to
prison and disbarred for
bribery two decades ago.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Artenio
Rodriguez
Commerce, TX
Mar 10
1 killed; 1 wounded
Shooter:
Edgar Tillery
Valparaiso, IN
Mar 10
Employees escaped
injury
Shooter:
Robert Randall
Mustard, Jr.
Dallas, TX
Mar 10
1 killed (shooter); 2
wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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Employee opened fire on two
co-workers in an Ohio State
Univ maintenance building, and
then fatally shot himself; he
received a poor work- place
evaluation and sought revenge.
A shooting incident occurred at
the Pentagon Metro Entrance.
Two Pentagon Force Protection
Agency (PFPA) officers were
injured when the suspect fired
at them. The suspect was
injured in return fire from the
officers. The California resident
was taken into custody and
later died from his injuries.
There are emerging signs that
the suspect may have harbored
resentment for the military and
had doubts about the facts
behind the Sep 11th terrorist
attacks.
Three young men with black
sweatshirt hoods pulled over
their heads walked into a
packed church service, where
one of them opened fire and
wounded two teenagers sitting
in the pews. The two victims, a
14-year-old boy and a 19-yearold man, were hospitalized and
were expected to survive.
Witnesses said the suspects
had paced up and down an
aisle, apparently looking for
targets, before shooting the
victims sitting near the back.
An Inskip elementary school
teacher is accused of shooting
and wounding the principal and
assistant principal about an
hour after the children were
dismissed because of snow
conditions. The shooter had
been warned for yelling at
students and told his contract
would not be renewed the next
term.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Nathaniel Brown
Columbus, OH
Mar 10
2 killed; 1 wounded
Shooter:
John Patrick
Bedell
Washington, DC
Mar 10
1 killed (the
shooter); 2 wounded
Shooter(s):
Unknown
New
Gethsemane
Church of God in
Christ
Richmond, CA
Feb 10
2 wounded
Shooter:
Mark Stephen
Foster
Knoxville, TN
Feb 10
2 wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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An Assistant Professor who was
denied tenure opened fired
with a 9mm pistol at the Shelby
Center Engineering Building,
killing 3 faculty members.
When her gun jammed, she
was forced out of the room by
those surviving. Previously, she
was a suspect in a mail
bombing of a professor who
she felt graded her too harshly
on her doctoral thesis.
A ninth grade Discovery Middle
School student shot another
ninth grade student in the head
while in the hallway during
class change; motive unknown;
shooter taken into custody.
A man apparently infatuated
with a special education
teacher shot and killed her as
she walked into her elementary
school, shortly before students
began arriving. The two had
apparently known each other
since she was in college, when
they worked together at a
cafeteria at Seattle Pacific
University. An anti-harassment
order banned Waits from going
within 1,000 feet of Paulson's
home or school. The suspect
was killed in a shootout with a
deputy a short time later about
10 miles away.
29-year-old Edwing Matos was
shot and killed outside a
Dimond Center barber shop.
The suspect -- who was
wearing a wig and fake facial
hair -- shot Matos twice before
fleeing. Matos believed Gray
had stolen his PlayStation,
some games, and some money,
and the two were meeting at
the mall to discuss the theft.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Amy Bishop
University of
Alabama
Huntsville
Feb 10
3 killed; 3 wounded
Shooter:
15-year-old
student
Madison, AL
Feb 10
1 killed
Shooter:
Jed Waits
Tacoma, WA
Feb 10
2 killed (including
shooter)
Shooter:
Terence Gray
Anchorage, AK
Feb 10
1 killed
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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Just after 3 PM, when students
were leaving class at Deer
Creek Middle School, a gunman
with
a
bolt-action rifle
appeared near the school and
began firing into the crowd
without warning.
A math
teacher came out and tackled
him. The shooter’s father said
his son heard voices and was in
financial trouble. The gunman
kept mumbling, "I'm fighting
for freedom. I'm fighting for
freedom," as he was being
subdued.
Andrew Joseph Stack III, 53, an
Austin resident with an
apparent grudge against the
Internal Revenue Service, set
his house on fire and slammed
his Piper Cherokee PA-28 into a
seven-story
building
that
housed the local office of the
Internal Revenue Service. He
blamed the IRS for eroding his
retirement savings and causing
him financial troubles for years.
A disgruntled ex-employee
wearing camouflage entered
Penske Truck Rental and began
shooting, killing two people;
arrested after being stopped by
police a mile away.
One man was in custody
following a workplace double
shooting in the parking lot of
the UPS facility; police say
pent-up anger over workplace
teasing likely led to the
altercation.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Bruco
Strongeagle
Eastwood
Littleton, CO
Feb 10
2 wounded
WPV Offender:
Andrew Joseph
Stack
Austin, TX
Feb 10
2 killed (including
pilot); 13 injured
Shooter:
Jesse Warren
Kennesaw, GA
Jan 10
2 killed; 3 wounded
Shooter:
Jerry Sanders
Richmond, CA
Jan 10
2
wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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A man who lost a recent Social
Security claim opened fire with
a shotgun in a federal
courthouse, killing a court
security officer and injuring a
deputy U.S. marshal. The 66year-old gunman torched his
apartment and then walked 3
miles to storm the entrance of
the courthouse. He ran from
the building as 7 officers
returned fire.
Armed with a rifle, shotgun,
and a handgun, a former
employee entered the ABB
Power Facility and began
shooting, killing 4 before killing
himself; in 2006 he filed a
lawsuit against the company
over retirement losses.
A former employee of Grady
Construction Company showed
up at the office and opened
fire, killing two; several
foreman tackled him, one
placing his finger in front of the
trigger to keep him from
further firing the weapon;
taken into custody.
An ex-security guard at the
Barona Casino entered a
personnel trailer with a
shotgun,
told
several
receptionists to leave, walked
into an adjacent manager’s
office and began shooting;
killed his boss and then turned
the weapon on himself; had
been forced out of his job
because
of
workplace
romances.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Johnny Wicks
Las Vegas, NV
Jan 10
2 killed (including
shooter); 1 wounded
Shooter:
Timothy
Hendron
St. Louis, MO
Jan 10
4 killed; 5 wounded
Shooter:
Richard
Matthews
Central, LA
Dec 09
2 killed; 1 injured
Shooter:
Donnell Roberts
Lakeside, CA
Dec 09
2 killed
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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Owner shot a co-worker in an
apparent workplace dispute
and then shot himself in the
head. Following a meeting that
didn’t go well, the gunman got
upset and confronted the
victim and, in trying to leave,
he was shot. Gunman was
owner of KBP & Fabrications
and the business partner of the
victim.
A lone gunman burst into a
coffee shop in Lakewood,
Washington and opened fire on
the four officers — three men
and a woman — as they
worked on laptops at the
beginning of their morning
shift. After a 2-day manhunt
that spanned several cities in
the Puget Sound region, the
gunman was shot and killed by
a Seattle Police Department
officer in south Seattle. The
shooting is believed to have
been a targeted attack against
police officers. Although the
gunman was killed by police,
six people have been charged
in connection with the
murders. All six are friends and
family of Clemmons who
allegedly aided him in escaping
the scene and eluding capture.
A gunman opened fire in an
engineering firm where he was
let go more than two years
ago, authorities said, killing one
person and injuring five others.
He surrendered about three
hours later, after officers saw
him through the window of his
mother's home. When asked
why he did it, he replied,
“because they left me to rot.”
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Carlos
Fernandez
Seattle, WA
Nov 09
1 killed; 1 wounded
Shooter:
Maurice
Clemens
Lakewood, WA
Nov 09
5 killed (including
shooter)
Shooter:
Jason Rodriguez
Orlando, FL
Nov 09
1 killed; 5 injured
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Nidal Malik
Hasan
Ft Hood, TX
Nov 09
13 killed; 30
wounded
Shooter:
Robert Beiser
Tualatin, OR
Nov 09
2 killed; 2 wounded
Shooter:
Curt Wise
Hillsboro, OR
Nov 09
1 killed; 2 wounded
Shooter:
Carlos
Fernandez
Kent, WA
Sep 09
2 wounded
A Yale graduate student’s body
found suffocated and stuffed in
a research building wall; coworker charged with her death.
Offender:
Raymond Clark
New Haven, CT
Sep 09
1 killed
An employee of a Farm
Equipment Business opened
fire on a colleague, and then
turned the gun on himself.
Shooter:
Jim Badasci
Fresno, CA
Sep 09
2 killed
Sep 09
1 killed
Event
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An Army psychiatrist opened
fire with a pair of pistols, both
semi-automatics, in a crowded
medical building on Ft Hood,
killing 13; the gunman and a
policewoman exchanged fire,
and both were wounded.
Gunman fired multiple shots
inside the Legacy Metro Lab
drug testing center, killing his
estranged wife and injuring
two of her co-workers before
turning the gun on himself.
A 20-year-old woman working
at a Great Clips hair salon was
shot to death by her exboyfriend in the salon's break
room. Victim was an assistant
manager whose ex-boyfriend
had been stalking her since
their break up.
The Manager of Kent Body &
Paint came into the business
and shot one man in the wrist
and abdomen over a dispute;
left the business and shot
himself in the head.
A special education teacher at
John Tyler High School was
fatally stabbed by a student in
a classroom.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Offender:
16-year-old
Tyler, TX
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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Gunman shot up a women’s
aerobic class at an LA Fitness
Club, killing 3 people before
killing himself; questioned by
police a week earlier because
he matched the description of
a man taking a grenade from
his bag on a public bus.
Gunman opened fire with an
assault rifle in the Family
Dental Care Office, killing his
wife, critically wounding three
others, and injuring one;
barricaded himself in the office
and later surrendered. His wife
was apparently seeking a
divorce.
Two Contra Costa County
sheriff's deputies shot and
killed a knife-wielding patient
at a Martinez hospital after he
brandished the weapon at
them. The incident began when
Hammond walked into the
hospital complaining of chest
pains. While being treated in
the emergency room, he
brandished a knife at nurses.
Gunman
opened
fire
indiscriminately with a long
rifle as he entered the
Holocaust Memorial, killing 1
before he was shot by a
security guard.
A former student shot a
football coach in the high
school weight room six times;
had delusions members of his
football team were trying to
“sexually assault him”; arrested
and found guilty.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
George Sodini
Pittsburg, PA
Aug 09
4 killed; 9 wounded
Shooter:
Jaime Paredes
Simi Valley, CA
Jul 09
4 killed; 1 wounded
Offender:
Paul Hammond
Contra Costa
Regional
Medical Center
Martinez, CA
Jun 09
1 killed (offender)
Shooter:
Wenneker von
Brunn
Washington, DC
Jun 09
1 killed; 1 wounded
Shooter:
Mark Becker
Allison, IA
Jun 09
1 killed
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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Gunman charged with first
degree murder in the killing of
an employee at the Taj Mahal
Casino in Atlantic City, New
Jersey; a regular patron, he
wrote a letter prior to the
killing saying the casinos have
been cheating for the past 20
years.
Fired as a security guard and
evicted from his on-premises
residence by his employer;
after the air-conditioning to his
residence was turned off by the
employer, he pulled out a gun
and shot his employer and an
innocent bystander.
A disguised gunman fatally shot
a Wesleyan University student
while she worked at a popular
bookstore near campus; police
found journals he kept in which
he wrote he hoped to make
Wesleyan
"the
Jewish
Columbine."
Gunman fatally shot his boss,
the owner of Bohnhoff Lumber
Co., following a dispute about
work. He also fatally shot a coworker. He allegedly tried to
kill a third person, the owner's
son, but his gun jammed; taken
into custody by police.
A marketing professor left his
two young children in the car
while he entered the Athens
Community
Theater
and
opened fire, killing his ex-wife
and two others; dropped his
children at a neighbor’s home
and then fled; gunman dug his
own grave and covered himself
with debris before firing a
single bullet into his head.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Mark Magee
Atlantic City, NJ
May 09
1 killed
Shooter:
Simon Silva
Liberty City, FL
May 09
2 killed
Shooter:
Stephen Morgan
Middleton, CT
May 09
1 killed
Shooter:
Saul Gastelum
Moreno
Vernon, New
Hampshire
May 09
2 killed
Shooter:
George Zinkhan
Athens, GA
Apr 09
4 killed; 2 wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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A Vietnamese gunman entered
the American Civic Association
after barricading the back door
of the immigration services
center with a car to thwart
escape and opened fire, killing
13 and wounding 4 before
committing suicide; he felt
teased and degraded because
of his inability to speak English.
A Henry Ford Community
College student fatally shot a
female classmate in the Fine
Arts Center before turning the
gun on himself in an apparent
murder-suicide.
A former student shot the
night manager and a pizza
delivery man inside a Hampton
University dormitory early
Sunday before turning the gun
on him; all three were
hospitalized.
A pharmacy tech showed up at
work at Long Beach Memorial
Medical Center brandishing
two handguns; killed his boss
and another manager before
killing himself.
All 3 men
worked in an outpatient
pharmacy. The shootings sent
panicked patients, visitors, and
hospital workers running for
cover as the gunman stalked
the corridors in search of his
victims.
First announcing that “nobody
is going to leave,” the gunman
proceeded to gun down two
co-workers at the Metropolitan
Transit System; fatally shot by
police in the parking lot.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Jiverly Voong
(aka Wong)
Binghamton, NY
Apr 09
13 killed; 4 wounded
Shooter:
Anthony Powell
Dearborn, MI
Apr 09
2 killed
Shooter:
Odane Maye
Hampton, VA
Apr 09
3 wounded
Shooter:
Mario Ramirez
Long Beach, CA
Apr 09
3 killed
Shooter:
Lonnie Glasgow
San Diego, CA
Mar 09
3 killed
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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A gunman walked down the
aisle at the First Baptist Church
and fatally shot the pastor at
point blank before stabbing
two church members and
himself when his gun jammed;
the gunman had marked the
day of the attack as a "day of
death" in a planning book.
A lone gunman burst into the
Pinelake Health and Rehab
nursing home Sunday morning
and
started
"shooting
everything," barging into the
rooms of terrified patients,
sparing some from his
rampage without explanation,
while killing seven residents
and an attending nurse;
confronted by policeman in
the hallway who stopped the
brutal attack.
Gunman shot a co-worker
multiple times in a Publix fresh
produce plant; afterwards got
into his car and shot himself.
Gunman believed victim was
talking behind his back and
saying that he just used him for
rides.
Gunman opened fire in the
parking lot of a hospital from
which he was recently fired,
killing two people and injuring
one; later shot a married
couple execution-style in their
home; gunman had previously
worked with wife of couple at
the Wesley Gardens Nursing
Home.
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Terry Sedlacek
Maryville, IL
Mar 09
1 killed; 3 injured
Shooter:
Robert Stewart
Carthage, NC
Mar 09
8 killed; 3 wounded
Shooter:
Christopher
Robinson
Lakeland, FL
Feb 09
Shooter:
Frank Garcia
Brockport, NY
Canandaigua, NY
Feb 09
1
killed; 1
wounded
4 killed, 1 wounded
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11
Event
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A former data entry operator
from Milwaukee fired on a
crowd outside a popular
Portland nightclub, killing 9;
then put the gun to his own
head.
He was reportedly
depressed and unemployed
when he left a note for his
roommate that insinuated
suicide.
Gunman chased down and
fired multiple shots at a
machine operator at Bay state
Pool Supplies, killing him; the
gunman was a custodian; an
eyewitness tried unsuccessfully
to intervene; gunman later
found in his van and arrested
by police; told police “I had
enough.”
Gunman shot and killed his
former girlfriend as she arrived
at the Wausau Manor nursing
home where she worked as a
nurse; initially attempted to
put her in the trunk of his car,
but
when
co-workers
intervened, he shot her; said "If
I can't have her, nobody can."
CPPS/CLO: Workplace Violence Incidents – 2009-2011
Individual(s)
Involved
Date
Resulting Outcome
Shooter:
Erik Salvador
Ayala
Portland, OR
Jan 09
10 killed
Shooter:
Clyde Howard
Cambridge, MA
Jan 09
1 killed
Shooter:
Walter Lassa
Wausau, WI
Jan 09
1 killed
Current As Of: 29 Mar 11