OT: Nobody would have thought
- From: jps <trash@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:25:29 -0700
This quiet, polite man would ever do something like this...
LONG BEACH, Calif. ?
A hospital worker shot and killed two employees and then killed
himself at a medical center Thursday, sending panicked people fleeing,
police and witnesses said.
The gunman was identified as Mario Ramirez, 50, of Alhambra, who died
of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. The victims
were Hugo Bustamante, 46, of Cypress, who died at the scene, and Kelly
Hales, 56, of Redondo Beach, who was taken to the hospital's emergency
room in critical condition and died several hours later.
Police Chief Anthony Batts said the gunfire erupted just before noon
at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. He said the motive remained
under investigation but noted the violence came amid a flurry of
recent shootings in the country.
"This is a trend of active shooters that you have seen nationwide,"
Batts said at a news conference. "This is becoming a national trend,
probably because of the tension that's going on in our society today."
Hospital spokeswoman Stacie Crompton-Hime said all three men worked in
an outpatient pharmacy where Bustamante was the manager and Hales was
the executive director. Asked if the shooting stemmed from a dispute
or possible layoffs at the hospital, Crompton-Hime said there were
layoffs last month but no other reductions were planned.
At Ramirez's home in Alhambra, his wife, Lydia, told her two sons the
news about their father late Thursday, said her sister, Eva Reyes, who
had come to comfort her. She declined to give more details about
Ramirez or the family.
Later, Ramirez's oldest son, Aaron, 14, sat on the front steps in the
dark and hid his tears in the hood of a green sweatshirt.
He asked a TV cameraman what happened to his dad. The teen said his
mother told him that his father had died, but he didn't know the
details.
The boy said he came outside because he couldn't stand to see his
mother and younger brother crying.
Neighbor Gina Marquez, 41, described Ramirez as a family man who was
quiet and polite. He would often go jogging with his wife, she said.
"You never heard a peep from that house. It's unreal," Marquez said.
"I can't imagine what state of mind he would have been in to do
something like that."
Yup, didn't see it coming and don't understand what would cause
someone to do something like this... how could he have gotten to this
state of mind?
A law abiding, family oriented, religious, polite human being can walk
into a gun store or gun show and walk out with a gun.
What happens between the time that sane human being who wouldn't hurt
a fly and the person who finishes his life by killing two others and
then himself??????
Who the hell knows. This doesn't reflect well on human being's
ability to handle the responsibility of a highly efficent, deadly
weapon.
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