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alp227

(32,034 posts)
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 05:32 PM Aug 2013

3 dead, 2 wounded in Fla. truck company shootings

Last edited Sat Aug 24, 2013, 10:15 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: AP

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) — A longtime employee of a Florida trucking company drove around Saturday shooting former co-workers and his onetime boss, killing two and wounding two, authorities said. The gunman then killed himself.

Hubert Allen Jr., 72, shot the men at several locations around Union County, including the headquarters for Pritchett Trucking Inc., according to a Union County Sheriff's Office news release.

Authorities said Allen shot and killed former co-worker Rolando Gonzalez-Delgado, 28, around 9 a.m. then went a short distance and fatally shot his former employer, 80-year-old Marvin Pritchett.

A few minutes later, he pulled over where another former co-worker was driving a farm tractor, exchanged words with him and then fired one shot from a shotgun, authorities said. That victim, 66-year-old Lewis Mabrey Jr., was in good condition and receiving surgery for a broken arm and other injuries.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3-dead-2-wounded-fla-truck-company-shootings



Turns out the shooter is step-grandfather of Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller. According to Jacksonville's First Coast News network, five people were shot total.
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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
1. "Fired employee shoots four people -- two fatally, including company owner.."
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 05:40 PM
Aug 2013

might make a better headline imho. .. in that this is not "just another day of
hyper-gun-nuttery in America" kind of story; because it involves a worker who
is pissed off at the company and the boss and who acts it out this way.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
5. Totally - I couldn't agree more
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 06:32 PM
Aug 2013

I'd be delighted if someone figured out a way for ALL guns to
just disappear overnight, I'd be all for it.

I didn't mean it wasn't about that, just that it was also more than
that, being the guys place of work, shooting his boss dead, and
all that.

I didn't seriously mean for you to change your header, my post
probably rounds it out sufficiently.

Turbineguy

(37,343 posts)
2. That's the wonderful thing about guns.
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 05:52 PM
Aug 2013

A person can put bad judgment into action before rationality kicks in.

(Another talking point for the NRA)

A terrible tragedy.

For many people who are living on the edge of disaster (Reaganomics Rules!), losing their job can be the end.

 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
4. That may be a bit too generous.
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 06:23 PM
Aug 2013

Access to a gun itself clouds judgment. It presents an option or choice which otherwise could be excluded as unfeasible.

 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
6. Previously involved in gun crime? Or law abiding right up until the moment he wasn't?
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 06:36 PM
Aug 2013

That, of course, is the folly of the claim to respectability of the "law abiding gun owner."

Everyone's sanity hangs by the thinnest of threads under particular stress.

And when the inevitable snap happens, imaginary "gun rights" make a mockery of legitimate rights.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
7. Yes...seems Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Sat Aug 24, 2013, 06:56 PM
Aug 2013

Life is first...

The second amendment surpasses the right to life..

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