Wow. Guess I'd better turn on the tv, huh? This is right across the road from where my wife used to work.
Posted on 10/21/2004 3:08:42 PM PDT by StarCMC
Shots Fired Inside Earth City Workplace
Created: 10/21/2004 3:23:55 PM Updated: 10/21/2004 5:00:40 PM
SWAT Team and police members surround an office building as they search for a shooting suspect.
Background: Beltservice Corporation Beltservice manufactures and sells more than 300 types of conveyor belts and belting products. They have seven facilities. The headquarters are located in St. Louis. Branch offices are located in Philadelphia, Charlotte, Sacramento, Portland, Oregon, Canada, and Mexico.
(KSDK) -- Police and SWAT team members are searching for an armed man inside the Beltservice Corporation building following an office shooting there Thursday afternoon.
Police say a former employee entered the building on Rider Trail North Road in Earth City and started shooting. Witnesses say the suspect then went outside, re-loaded his weapon and went back inside.
In the words of one eyewitness, the gunman "just kept shooting."
The chairman of the company, Dick Engelsmann, tells NewsChannel 5's Mike Owens that he was in his second floor office when he looked out his window and saw the shooting suspect nearing the building with a shotgun. Engelsmann says the suspect entered the building and fired at least five shots.
Engelsmann says at the time of the shooting, the company was in the middle of a shift change, with nearly 70 people inside the building.
Witnesses say at least one person was shot in the leg. Another employee reportedly remained inside the building to tend to the wounded worker.
At least one person has been transported by ambulance to St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Charles. This person is said to have suffered an injury while making his escape. This injury is not believed to be life threatening.
Sketch of a Suspect Employees of Beltservice tell NewsChannel 5 that the shooting suspect is a former employee of the company. He had been fired more than a year ago after working in the company's fabrication department.
Police have blocked off a three-block radius around the building.
The company makes rubber belts for machines.
Right now it's not clear how many people were hurt or if the shooter is in custody.
We'll continue to bring you more information on this story as it becomes available.
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Wow. Guess I'd better turn on the tv, huh? This is right across the road from where my wife used to work.
Kerry, Clinton, Schumer, Sara Brady, etc seen putting on their blood dancing shoes.
Different title - didn't find it.
They had mentioned on Ch. 2 that at least one person was shot in the leg. I don't know if that's the same victim they are talking about or not...
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