Posted on 08/03/2010 1:22:19 PM PDT by traumer
Steve Hollander, a member of the family that founded and owns the company, is one of the wounded, a police source said. He was shot in the neck, the source said. He has been released from the hospital.
“Everyone is devastated by this tragic and senseless act,” said Jim Battaglio, a spokesman for the Hollander family, adding that the Hollander family intends to focus its attention and efforts on the families and the victims.
Another shooting victim was identified as Bryan Cirigliano, 51, of Newington, by a man at Hartford Hospital who said he was Cirigliano’s brother. Bryan Cirigliano is the president of the Teamsters Local 1035 that represents drivers at Hartford Distributors.
Craig Pepin, 60, was killed in the shooting, friends said.
Pepin lived in South Windsor and was a driver at Hartford Distributors. He had three sons and a daughter.
Pepin was a soccer coach for a travel team with the South Windsor Soccer Club. He recently played on a softball team with the South Windsor recreation department. His team won its game Monday night, friends said.
Another victim was identified as Victor James, who died at Hartford Hospital, officials said.
Gloria Wilson, 86, said her son Victor would have turned 60 on Aug. 30.
James, of Windsor, had two adult daughters and four grandchildren.
Wilson said she had already heard about the shootings when her other son called with the news that Victor James was dead.
“I just got praying he wasn’t one of them, and he was,” she said.
“There wasn’t a better family man,” Wilson said.
James was planning to retire from Hartford Distributors this year after working for the company as a truck driver for 30 years. He planned to work around his home and tinker with an old car he had, Wilson said.
James grew up in Providence and Cranston, R.I. He had one brother, Robert James, Wilson said.
“He loved his children and his grandchildren,” she said. “He’d take the grandchildren out for movies. He devoted his weekends to them.”
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Thornton filed bankruptcy in 2000 at age 24, under the name Thornton Omar Sharriff. He reported $600 in the bank and nearly $16,000 in debts, including a car loan and student loans. At the time he was a delivery driver in Middletown for Stericycle, a medical- and hazardous-waste disposal firm. A corporate official said the company would not discuss Thornton.
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“The Hollander family is probably one of the most venerated families in the Hartford area in the Jewish community,” Larson said. “There isn’t a charity that they haven’t contributed.”
That’s true, but getting caught stealing and only being ‘asked’ to resign instead of hauled to jail, this guy had it EASY.
I’d be able to at least somewhat see if they’d been doing a good job and got laid off as trash as so often happens and they went after someone up the chain. I have a feeling this was ‘targeted’ racially though. Just a crook and murderer, nothing more.
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Too all the managers and senior staff types....If you are required to attend disciplinary hearings, I would suggest ya ask for a big pay raise, and demand to go armed. Some of these walking time bombs are known to come back 7 years after, with a smoldering vengeance.
In some cases they certainly ruin lives and help out their pals that are the worst in the department. I’m surprised it isn’t far worse with these, especially now.
And yet they had the audacity to video HIS every move? WASSUP?
This was a hate crime, if the victims are all white.
damn right DC. another freakin TCBEM savage who belonged in a cage, not out.
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