MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minneapolis police on Friday sorted through evidence from a shooting rampage that left at least five people dead, including the founder of a sign company, a UPS driver and the man who opened fire at the business.
The suspected gunman in the Thursday shooting had once worked at Accent Signage Systems Inc and police were not searching for other suspects in the attack, the worst work-place homicide death toll in Minnesota in at least two decades.
Police have not officially released a motive for the attack but were treating it as a work-place shooting.
The suspected gunman apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Company founder Reuven Rahamim was among the dead, company spokeswoman Wendy Khabie said on Friday.
UPS driver Keith Basinski also was killed in the shooting, said Jill Schubert, president of UPS's Northern Plains District. A UPS truck was parked at the company's loading dock.
"Keith had been a part of our UPS family for 29 years and we are going to miss him very much," Schubert said on Friday in a statement.
Three men were taken to Hennepin County Medical Center in critical condition after the shooting, which was reported at 4:35 p.m. CDT (5.35 p.m. EDT) on Thursday.
A hospital spokeswoman said one man remained in critical condition and a second was in serious condition. The status of the third man, who had been listed in critical condition, was not known.
A fourth person was treated and released.
Accent Signage is the only manufacturing business located among the mix of single-family homes and parks in that tree-lined section of the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis.
"In a great neighborhood and a great business, we have a horrible tragedy," Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said on Thursday night.
Accent Signage is known for a process of making interior signs with durable Braille text lettering. The company website includes a picture of a White House Counsel office sign plate that uses the Braille technology.
Rahamim, an Israeli immigrant, started a sign business out of his basement that grew to have 28 employees and an expected revenue of $5 million to $10 million this year, according to the publication Finance & Commerce.
"Reuven was so proud of everything that he and his family have built in this country, and he had a right to be," Rybak said Friday in a Facebook posting.
The Minneapolis shooting comes a month after a work-related shooting near the Empire State Building in New York, which killed two people and wounded nine.
This followed an July mass shooting in a crowded cinema in Colorado and an attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in August, which rekindled debate about gun control in the United States.
Minnesota work-place homicide records date back only to 1992 and no one incident had resulted in more than two homicides.
Nationally, there were 458 workplace homicides in 2011 and 518 in 2010, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
(Reporting by David Bailey; Editing by Bill Trott and Alden Bentley)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/two-dead-least-three-wounded-minneapolis-company-shooting-001129604.html
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