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Three people are dead, including the suspected gunman, after a shooting at a U.S. Postal Service sorting facility in Memphis, Tennessee, on Tuesday, according to authorities. The Memphis police and FBI agents responded to the shooting around noon local time. Just before 2 p.m., police announced the scene was secure and that there were “no active threats.”...

The FBI says a fatal shooting in a Southern California Immigration and Customs Enforcement office occurred as an agent was being counseled on his performance by a high-ranking ICE official. Federal officials on Friday identified the gunman as 45-year-old supervisory special agent Ezequiel Garcia and the victim as 51-year-old Kevin Kozak...

STAR, N.C. -- Montgomery County sheriff's deputies are on the scene of what appears to be a workplace shooting at McBride Lumber Company just north of Star. Sheriff Dempsey Owens told WXII 12 that 4 people were shot inside the company Friday morning, 3 people died, 1 worker was airlifted to the hospital, and the gunman was transported to the hospital after shooting himself at his home. Deputies responded to McBride Lumber Company just after 6 a.m. Owens said witnesses reported that the gunman was a disgruntled employee at McBride Lumber Company entered the warehouse and starting shooting workers. Deputies...

RENO, Nev. – A gunman bought ammunition at a Walmart in Nevada shortly before opening fire on three co-workers in the same store, authorities said Monday. Suspect John Dennis Gillane purchased the handgun ammunition in the sporting goods department about an hour before three managers were shot on Friday, police said. The attacker was armed with two handguns during the videotaped attack but only a semi-automatic pistol was fired, police Lt. Mohammad Rafaqat said. The .44-magnum revolver for which the ammunition was bought was not fired, Rafaqat added.

If Yvonne Hiller killed her coworkers at the Kraft Foods baking plant in Northeast Philadelphia last week as charged, she would join a rare - but possibly emerging - breed: women as workplace killers. Women commit fewer than 5 percent of homicides and assaults in the workplace, said Larry Barton, a teacher at the FBI Academy and author of four books on crisis management and violence at work. And, as a rule, they're much less likely to kill in general than men. They tend to internalize their anger or use words rather than haul out a gun in a public...

A devout Muslim woman killed two people and seriously wounded a third in a gun rampage at the U.S. food factory where she worked today. In the latest workplace shooting to hit the U.S., Yvonne Hiller, who was described as 'spiritual' by a co-worker, walked back into the Kraft Foods factory in Philadelphia and attacked colleagues, police said. Just 10 minutes before the .357 Magnum handgun shootings, she was escorted from the building as managers investigated an undisclosed incident.

A woman who had just been suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods Inc. facility returned with a handgun and opened fire Thursday, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody about an hour later, police said. The shooting happened in the city's northeast section shortly after 8:30 p.m. inside a plant of the nation's largest food manufacturer, whose products include Oreo cookies, Philadelphia cream cheese and Oscar Mayer bacon, Lt. Frank Vanore said. The woman returned to the building in a car 10 minutes after being escorted out and drove through...

A woman just suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods plant in northeast Philadelphia returned with a handgun and opened fire Thursday, killing two people and critically injuring a third, police said. The 43-year-old shooter was taken into custody inside the plant of the nation's largest food manufacturer, whose products include Oreo cookies, Philadelphia cream cheese and Oscar Mayer bacon, Lt. Frank Vanore said. The woman had returned to the building in a car 10 minutes after being escorted out and passed through a barrier before re-entering the building, he said. Before being apprehended she fired a...

At least one person was killed when a woman started shooting employees inside the Kraft Foods baking plant Thursday night in Northeast Philadelphia, police said. Three people were shot and the woman was taken into custody by SWAT after a standoff on the second floor of the plant at 12000 Roosevelt Blvd., police said.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The man who went on a shooting rampage at a beer distributor calmly told a 911 operator that it was "a racist place" and that he had taken matters into his own hands and "handled the problem." Omar Thornton, 34, called 911 after shooting 10 co-workers - eight fatally - on Tuesday morning at Hartford Distributors. He introduced himself as "the shooter over in Manchester" and said he was hiding in the building, but would not say where......

Picture this: You're a black man working at a beer distributorship and every day when you go into the bathroom, you see a new drawing of a hangman's noose around a black man's neck with "Kill the n-word" underneath. So you take pictures with your cell phone. Why would you only show these pictures to your girlfriend and mother? Why would you not go directly to management with the evidence and address this? And where is the cell phone with the pictures now? From ABC News: Girlfriend of Hartford Shooter Speaks Out The girlfriend of the man who gunned down...

Not on their website yet. Being reported on Fox News TV. Workplace shooting in Manchester, CT. Budwiser distributer. Three dead. Story is developing.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Officers are on the scene of a shooting in downtown Orlando Friday. According to Orlando Fire Department dispatch, several people were shot and were transported to a local hospital. The shooting happened at 1000 LEGION PL (see map) at the Gateway Center. No other details are available at this time. Click REFRESH for the latest updates from WFTV.com. Copyright 2009 by wftv.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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...

Several people shot and killed inside the plant at Lockhead Martin in Meridian, Mississippi. The shooter is dead. Details to follow.