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Posted: Thursday, 30 August 2007 11:28AM
Shooting Leaves One Dead, Two Injured in the Bronx
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A disgruntled former employee shot and killed another worker and injured two others, one critically, on Thursday in a workplace dispute in the Bronx, police said.
The shooter turned himself in to authorities shortly after the incident at the Co-op City housing complex, said police spokesman Paul Browne.
The gunman had been fired in February 2005 from his job at the massive housing complex, then lost his arbitration hearing earlier this week, police said. Authorities did not know why he had been dismissed.
At about 8 a.m. Thursday, the shooter entered a basement office at the complex, pulled a .38-caliber handgun and shot and killed a 59-year-old employee, police said. After leaving the basement, he shot two other workers.
One of the surviving victims was hospitalized in critical condition with a neck wound. The other was treated for a gunshot wound to the arm and released.
About an hour after the shooting, the gunman walked into Criminal Court in the Bronx and surrendered to court officers, police said. The officers seized his gun and turned him over to detectives with the district attorney's office, police said.
Built in the late 1960s on the site of a former amusement park, Co-op City is a sprawling collection of 15,372 apartments in 35 high-rises and seven town house clusters. It has its own security force and power plant.
There was no immediate responses to telephone messages left with RiverBay Corporation, which manages the complex, and with Bronx District Attorney spokesman Steven Reed.
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