Last Updated on June 28, 2020, 7:42 AM AST by Anthony Morris
On Saturday afternoon, a man drove into a Northern California distribution centre and started shooting at people, an employee lost his life, and four others were wounded before police killed the shooter, authorities said.
The shooting at the distribution centre south of Red Bluff by a 31-year-old man who had a semi-automatic rifle started at about 3:30 p.m.,
Red Bluff is a city with about 14,000 people around 131 miles north of Sacramento, California.
Phil Johnston, Tehama County Assistant Sheriff, said that the shooter circled in the parking lot four times before he crashed into the building and opened fire with his rifle. Red Bluff Police officers shot the suspect, and he died.
The employee who died in the shooting was 45-year-old Martin Haro-Lozano of Orland, California.
Officials have not identified the shooter, but Johnston said that he had a history with the Red Bluff workplace.
The victims were taken to the St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff.
A spokeswoman confirmed that the four victims were hospitalized, but did not provide any more details.
Employees said that some of the 200 workers inside the facility had locked themselves in a room.
Thammakhanty said that the firing went on and on, he does not even know how many times he fired.
Thammakhanty and others then started running away for their lives, and he also saw people lying on the ground as he went.
Thammakhanty’s fellow employee Franklin Lister said that he had just started his work when a coworker ran down the hallway shouting: “Active gunfire! Active shooter!”
Vince Krick told the Record-Searchlight that his wife and son work at the facility and he was on his way to pick his wife up when he saw the flames. Neither was hurt, but his wife told him not to come to the front entrance, the newspaper reported.
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