Just like the post office bans employees from carrying guns, UPS has similar policies, and when a mad man decides to turn people into targets, this is what happens:
A recently fired UPS employee on Tuesday shot dead two supervisors at the company facility where he had worked in Birmingham, Alabama before turning the gun on himself, police said.
The gunman, who was wearing a brown UPS uniform, had been terminated earlier this month and had learned a day earlier that he had lost his appeal to get his job back, police said, adding that his motive was not immediately clear. Police had earlier said that the man was fired on Monday.
The shooting occurred shortly before 9:30am at a large, brick UPS service centre atop a hill in the Inglenook section of Birmingham, close to the airport, police said.
Officers found the two victims along with the gunman, who had arrived at the facility in a Honda SUV and died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Birmingham Police Chief AC Roper said.
Police fired no shots, he said.
“When these people came to work today, they had no idea that this would be their last day here on Earth,” Roper said.
Lieutenant Sean Edwards said the two men killed by the gunman appeared to be higher-ranked UPS employees.
“It appears that the shooter knew exactly who he wanted to target at the time,” Edwards said.
A handgun believed to be the one used in the shooting has been recovered, police said.
Both of the victims were men, police said.
Police were holding off on releasing the names of the dead, whose family members had not all yet been notified, said Birmingham Police spokesman Lieutenant Sean Edwards.
At least a dozen others were present in the building at the time of the shooting, but no one else was wounded, police said.
There were no other injuries at the facility near the city’s airport on the northeast side. A motive was unclear, the chief told reporters at a press conference.
A group of grief counsellors could be seen entering the UPS facility on Tuesday afternoon.
UPS confirmed the incident and said it was cooperating with police.
Source: http://www.omantribune.com/index.php?page=news&id=175380&heading=Americas