A man shot dead five of his co-workers after he
was sacked from his job of of 15 years on Friday.
Gary
Martin opened fire on his colleagues and work mates of over a decade after he
was fired from a suburban Chicago manufacturing company, authorities said.
Police
chief Kristen Ziman said that Martin also shot at officers as soon as they
entered the Henry Pratt company building in Aurora – 40 miles west of Chicago.
Gunman
Martin, 45, was also killed in the police shoot out.
Five
police officers were wounded and a sixth worker was also taken to hospital
after the shooting, though their injuries were not thought to be life
threatening.
Ms
Ziman said officers arrived within four minutes of receiving reports of the
shooting and were fired upon as soon as they entered the 29,000-square-foot
manufacturing warehouse.
After fatally shooting several people in the room at the
manufacturing business he'd worked for 15 years, he stormed into the warehouse,
witnesses said. There, he shot at more employees.
In a rampage that lasted about 90 minutes before police killed
him in a shootout, Martin killed five people and injured six people --
including five officers.
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