In a related story, the timing is downright eerie......
MINNEAPOLIS - The shooting incident at a courthouse in Atlanta is serving as a grim reminder of shootings that took place at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis 18 months ago.
Mandatory weapons screening goes into effect at the Hennepin County Government Center on Monday. Talks about increased security have been in the works since a fatal shooting there in September, 2003.
Susan Berkovitz, the woman convicted in the Minneapolis shootings, opened fire outside of a courtroom on the 17th floor of the building on September 29 of that year, killing her cousin and injuring the victim's attorney. She was sentenced to life in prison.
Starting at 6 a.m. Monday, employees and court visitors heading to certain floors will go through a screening system similar to what is in place at airports across the country.
"There will be people that are upset," said county security manager Roberta Haight. "It is an inconvenience. But you need to balance the inconvenience with the security. And that's what it's all about come Monday."
The busy times will obviously be in the mornings when employees are arriving to work and when others are arriving to .
During the noon lunch hour, about 3,000 of the 7,000 people expected to go through security on an average weekday are expected to be government employees.
http://kstp.com/article/stories/S6935.html?cat=1
Note, she killed her cousin. You have to be cold to do that. And here we are talking about cousins. Eerie.