"MANCHESTER, CT - A Connecticut truck driver who was in trouble with his bosses opened fire on his co-workers Tuesday, killing at least eight people before shooting himself.
"The gunman worked at a family-owned beer and wine wholesaler in Manchester, Conn., where a union official called him a `disciplinary problem.`
"`The union was bringing him in to meet with the company,` Teamsters official John Hollis told the Hartford Courant. `He started shooting.`
"The Associated Press reported that Omar Thornton, 34, was asked to resign and instead opened fire just before 7:30 a.m.
"Hollis would not say why he was being called in, but NBC in Connecticut reported Thornton had been accused of stealing.
"Among those shot was Bryan Cirigliano, 51, president of the Teamsters Local 1035 that represents drivers at the warehouse, Cirigliano's brother told the Courant.
"The number of dead and wounded was not immediately clear.
"About 50 to 70 people were in the Hartford Distributors warehouse during a shift change, marketing director Brett Hollander said.
"`We're now just trying to figure out who's shot, who's not accounted for,` he said.
"Hollander's cousin, a vice president at the company, was among the wounded - shot in the arm and the face. The
"Hollander family is known in the Hartford area for its philanthropy.
"Anxious family members of the employees gathered at the nearby Manchester High School, waiting for word of their loved ones.
"Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell said, `We are all left asking the same questions: How could someone do this? Why did they do this?`"
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Its funny how this article forgot to mention that the shooter states that use face racial threats from the ones he killed, I guess the guy who wrote this was white, its very clear of what happened here, but WHY? His story seems more honest then the founder of the company, I mean C’mon, killing all those people because he was caught stealing alcohol and selling it to third parties, I’ll tell you one thing, I bet they will never show the vedio they claim they have of him stealing, plus in there own words they say he was caught many times doing this, 1st of all, if this was true he should have never been a second time, what company lets an employee stay employed after doing such a thing, that’s just un common, then they say the forced him to resign, that just sounds like a lie, any employee caught stealing, especially a black man, would be fired on the spot, there own story discredits them, on his behalf, his girl friend is a white, and she even says he showed her proof of his story with out one stutter, but this found has to write down his story and read it and stutters the whole thing, its because he isn’t good at lying, so these people want us to believe that this guy stole, got cause and killed cause he got cause, then made up a story that he did it cause of racial discrimination, then he dialed 911 to tell this story that they denied that is true, I’m a black male, I have no hatred towards no one for the color shape, size or background, but I think he is telling the truth, but its said, because the ones who didn’t get killed, got to live, and they will continue to play innocent as if they did nothing wrong, its will make more whites hate black, the shooters family will have problems with white now, even at work, unless people own up to there acts that caused this tragedy, ask there families if they will learn from this, or continue to fuel the fire that is burning with racism? I doubt that they will learn, and these acts will happen again and again, TRU ME, there will be more like him, I have almost been there my self for the same reason, that makes two of us, trust me, there will be more, beware of your acts, and watch you words, you never know when this will replay its self,
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