Spring 2002 Issue

There have been a staggering number of fatal shootings in the workplace over the past 10 years. Here are just a few of those cases (source: CBS news).

• Feb., 5, 2001: William Baker carries a golf bag loaded with firearms into the Navistar engine plant in Melrose Park, Ill. The terminated employee then shoots four people to death, wounds four others, then fatally shoots himself.
  
• Dec. 26, 2000: Seven people are shot to death at a Wakefield, Mass., Internet consulting company, Edgewater Technology Inc. Software tester Michael McDermott is charged with murder in the rampage.
• Nov. 2, 1999: Employee Byran Uyesugi opens fire at a Xerox Corp. office in Honolulu, killing seven before fleeing in a company van.
• Aug. 5, 1999: Former employee Alan Eugene Miller shoots two people to death at a construction supply company where he worked in Pelham, Ala., and then kills a third at a business where he formerly worked.
• March 6, 1998: Former accountant for the Connecticut Lottery Corp., Matthew Beck, 35, fatally shoots four lottery senior executives and then kills himself.
• Dec. 18, 1997: Arturo Reyes Torres, 43, kills four former co-workers at a maintenance yard in Orange, Calif., and is shot to death by police.
• Sept. 15, 1997: Fired assembly line worker Arthur H. Wise, 43, opens fire at an Aiken, SC, parts plant, killing four and wounding three others.
• Apr. 3, 1995: James Simpson, 28, walks into the office of his former employer, Walter Rossler Co., a refinery inspection company in Corpus Christi, Texas, and shoots five workers before shooting himself to death.
• June 18, 1990: James Edward "Pop" Pough kills nine and wounds four others at the Jacksonville, Fla., office of General Motors Acceptance Corp., a car financing company, before killing himself.