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Workplace Shootings


1986 August 20th. - USA, Oklahoma, Edmond: A postal worker who was about to be fired, opened fire at a post office, killing 14 people before fatally wounding himself.

1988 February 16th. - USA, California, Sunnyvale: a 40-year-old man, angry that a former co-worker at ESL Corp. had rejected his advances, stormed into the company and killed 7 people with a shotgun before surrendering.
1989 September 14th. - USA, Kentucky, Louisville: a 47-year-old man, on disability for mental illness, killed 8 people and injured 12 others at a printing plant, before killing himself.

1990 June 18th. - USA, Florida: A shooting spree in a General Motors office in Florida; 11 people died, including the assailant, four others were wounded

1993 July 1st. - USA, California, San Francisco: a 55-year-old mentally disturbed man with a grudge against lawyers opened fire in a law office, killing 8 people and then himself.

1993 December 2nd. - USA, California, Oxnard: a 33-year-old unemployed computer engineer opened fire in an unemployment office, killing 3 state workers and injuring 4 others. He later killed a police officer, before being shot dead by police.

1994 March 14th. - USA, California, Santa Fe Springs: a 29-year-old man, recently fired from an electronics factory, shot 3 people to death before killing himself.

1995 April 3rd. - USA, Texas: a former employee at a refinery inspection station shot and killed the owner of the company, his wife and three workers before killing himself.

1995 July 19th. - USA, California, Los Angeles, C. Erwin Piper Technical Center: a 42-year-old city electrician shot 4 supervisors to death

1996 April 24th. - USA, Missouri, Jackson: a 32-year-old firefighter killed his estranged wife as well as 4 superiors at a firehouse.

1997 June 5th. - USA, Santa Fe Springs: a plastics factory employee fatally shot 2 co-workers and wounded 4 others after an argument, before killing himself two hours later.

1997 September 15th. - USA, Aikens part plant: a fired employee went on a shooting spry; 4 people died and 3 were injured.

1997 December 18th. - USA, California, Orange: a former employee of a maintenance yard went on a shooting rampage with an AK-47 rifle; 4 people, including his former boss died; the attacker was shot dead by police.

1998 March 6th. - USA, Connecticut: an accountant involved in a pay dispute shot dead 4 people (the Lottery Corporation's president and three of his supervisors) before killing himself.

1999 April 15th. - USA, Utah, Salt Lake City: an assailant opened fire in the Mormon Family History Library: 2 people died, 4 others were injured. The attacker was shot dead by police.

1999 June 11th. - USA, Michigan: an attacker shot 5 people, including his former psychiatrist before killing himself.

1999 July 29th. - USA, Georgia, Atlanta: a 44-year-old man went on a shooting rampage at two office buildings. 9 people were shot to death, and 12 were injured. The shooter also killed his wife and his two children, and eventually committed suicide.

1999 August 5th. - USA, Alabama, Pelham, Ferguson Enterprises: a delivery truck driver shot 2 co-workers to death at his heating and air conditioning company; afterwards, he drove five miles to Post Airgas Co., his previous employer, and killed a 3rd. person.

1999 November 2nd. - USA, Hawaii, Honolulu, a 40-year-old man killed 7 of his co-workers at a Xerox facility

1999 November 4th. - USA, Seattle, Washington: a gunman opened fire with a 9mm handgun at a commercial building. 2 persons were killed and 2 others wounded.

1999 December 31st. - USA, Florida, Tampa: in another work-place shooting, a 36-year-old hotel employee killed 4 co-workers and injured 3 others. During his attempt to flee, he killed another woman.

2000 March 8th. - USA, Tennessee, Memphis: a firefighter, on leave from the fire department because of emotional problems, killed his wife inside his home and then set the house on fire. Two firefighters and a sheriff's deputy were shot to death when they arrived on the scene. A female bystander was wounded, and the attacker himself was wounded by police.

2000 March 20th. - USA, Texas, Dallas area: a 28-year-old fired employee shot 5 people to death at a car wash.

2000 December 26th. - USA, Massachusetts, Wakefield near Boston, Edgewater Technology Inc.: a 42-year old male went on a shooting rampage at an Internet consulting firm: 7 co-workers died, the suspect, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, a shotgun and a semiautomatic handgun, was later arrested.

2001 February 5th. - USA, Illinois, Chicago/Melrose Park: A former employee shot at least 8 people at Navistar International Corp., a diesel engine manufacturing plant in a western Chicago suburb before turning the gun on himself. Some 1,400 workers were evacuated from the plant. 4 people, including the gunman, died and 5 were injured.

2001 December 6th. - USA, Indiana, Goshen, Nu-Wood Decorative Millwork plant: A gunman, reportedly a disgruntled employee opened fire; 2 people, including himself died, 6 others were injured.

2002 September 16th. - USA, New York, New York City, near Times Square: An insurance executive called 2 co-workers into his office at Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, shot them to death and then killed himself.

2003 February 25th. - USA, Alabama, Huntsville, Labor Ready Inc.: shooting at the temporary employment agency near downtown. 4 people, including the attacker died and 1 person was injured.

2003 May 2nd - Italy, Sicily, town of Aci Castello: 5 people (the mayor of the small town, three other city workers and an elderly bystander) were gunned down by a disgruntled employee. The suspect fled the scene and finally shot himself in a church 60 miles away.

2003 July 2nd. - USA, Missouri, Jefferson City: an employee went on a shooting rampage at a manufacturing plant; 3 co-workers and the assailant died, 5 others were injured.

2003 July 8th. - USA, Mississippi, Lauderdale County, Lockheed Martin plant near Meridian: an employee armed with a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle went through the entire facility and shot workers randomly rather than targeting individuals; 6 people, including the gunman died, 8 others were injured.
The plant was located in an industrial park employs about 100 people and builds structural subassemblies for the C-130J Hercules transport plane and the F-22 Raptor fighter.

2003 July 23rd. - USA, Texas, San Antonio, 3520 N.E. Loop 1604: an employee of a Century One real estate business entered the office with a .357 magnum and shot two female co-workers to death and critically injured another woman; the assailant committed suicide by crashing his car into a concrete barrier when police closed in near Temple (130 miles northeast of San Antonio)

2003 August 19th. - USA, Ohio, Andover: a 32-year-old employee opened fire at the Andover Industries car plant, killing himself and an office worker after his application for vacation had been denied because he had filled out a form improperly. He told his family he had just learned he had cancer.

2003 August 27th. - USA, Illinois, Chicago, South Side: a 36-year-old man who had lost his job at Windy City Core Supply, Inc. six months ago stormed the auto-parts warehouse armed with a Walther PP .380 semi-automatic pistol and shot 6 people to death. The Mexican-born gunman, who had been arrested 12 times for weapons violations since 1989, including four for domestic battery, two for aggravated assault, and two for weapons violations, was shot to death by police.

2004 July 2nd - USA, Kansas, Kansas City: a former employee shot and killed four people at the ConAgra Foods Inc. meatpacking plant; the gunman walked into the cafeteria shortly after 5 p.m. and began firing, then killed himself; at least three other people were injured.