Police say a man who was fired from a warehouse that handles shipments for Toys “R” Us returned and fatally shot a co-worker. Police Chief Ralph Portier says in a statement that Donald Damron died at a hospital after the shooting late Thursday in Groveport, a Columbus suburb. Get the full story »
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Worker kills 2, injures 1 at Kraft cookie plant
Employees talk outside the scene of a workplace shooting at the Kraft facility in Philadelphia. (For the Daily News/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods Inc. plant and was escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said.
The shootings occurred shortly after 8:30 p.m. Thursday inside a northeast Philadelphia plant where workers for the nation’s largest food manufacturer, headquartered in Northfield, makes cookies and crackers. Get the full story »
3 dead in shooting at Conn. company
At least three people are dead and at least three injured in a workplace shooting in Manchester, Conn. at Hartford Distributors. State Police said Omar Thomas, the suspect, shot himself as police approached, and is dead. The suspect was an employee, the marketing director of the company said, before police identified Thomas.
