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01-07-2010, 04:30 PM
1 Dead, 4 Injured in St. Louis Factory Shooting
St. Louis Police Search for Man Linked to Workplace Shooting
Thursday, January 07, 2010
FOX News
St. Louis police are searching for a man in connection to a shooting at a power company where one person died and left four others injured.
Authorities are looking for Timothy Hendron, 51, who reportedly worked at the ABB power company for 25 to 30 years. Police are searching for a car he may be driving, a pewter-colored Nissan truck with license plates with Missouri license plate OKK 696.
Interstate 70 between Jennings Station and Union have been closed in both directions near the shooting scene.
A man reportedly entered ABB Power at about 6:30 a.m. with a large assault rifle, possibly an AK-47. Details on the whereabouts of the shooter are unknown, with conflicting reports on whether or not he's still in the building.
The St. Louis Fire Department confirmed one person died, but the conditions of the four other shooting victims were not immediately known.
Family members of employees of the power company have been calling in to Fox 2 to report that the shooter was a disgruntled worker.
Descriptions of the gunman have been confusing to police as one witness described the gunman as a black man, about 5-foot-8, wearing a tan coat and carrying a semiautomatic weapon — but later, a company supervisor called police to give the name of a disgruntled worker, a white man, who had possibly been recently fired, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Several employees in the building ran to the building's rooftop to get away from the gunfire, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The paper also reported that one worker had locked himself inside of a maintenance room in the building.
Police were told he carried a handgun, a rifle and an ammunition belt, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Swiss-based ABB Group makes power transmission and industrial automation equipment. The company manufactures transformers at the St. Louis site, according to its Web site. It wasn't immediately known how many people work at the plant.
ABB has operations in roughly 100 countries, employing about 120,000 people. Last October, ABB reported third-quarter earnings of more than $1 billion.
St. Louis Police Search for Man Linked to Workplace Shooting
Thursday, January 07, 2010
FOX News
St. Louis police are searching for a man in connection to a shooting at a power company where one person died and left four others injured.
Authorities are looking for Timothy Hendron, 51, who reportedly worked at the ABB power company for 25 to 30 years. Police are searching for a car he may be driving, a pewter-colored Nissan truck with license plates with Missouri license plate OKK 696.
Interstate 70 between Jennings Station and Union have been closed in both directions near the shooting scene.
A man reportedly entered ABB Power at about 6:30 a.m. with a large assault rifle, possibly an AK-47. Details on the whereabouts of the shooter are unknown, with conflicting reports on whether or not he's still in the building.
The St. Louis Fire Department confirmed one person died, but the conditions of the four other shooting victims were not immediately known.
Family members of employees of the power company have been calling in to Fox 2 to report that the shooter was a disgruntled worker.
Descriptions of the gunman have been confusing to police as one witness described the gunman as a black man, about 5-foot-8, wearing a tan coat and carrying a semiautomatic weapon — but later, a company supervisor called police to give the name of a disgruntled worker, a white man, who had possibly been recently fired, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Several employees in the building ran to the building's rooftop to get away from the gunfire, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The paper also reported that one worker had locked himself inside of a maintenance room in the building.
Police were told he carried a handgun, a rifle and an ammunition belt, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Swiss-based ABB Group makes power transmission and industrial automation equipment. The company manufactures transformers at the St. Louis site, according to its Web site. It wasn't immediately known how many people work at the plant.
ABB has operations in roughly 100 countries, employing about 120,000 people. Last October, ABB reported third-quarter earnings of more than $1 billion.