3 Workplace Shootings In One Day

N.C. Shooter Kills Woman, Self; Mass. Man Shoots Co-Worker, Self; In Va., An Argument Escalates

(CBS/AP)  Three separate workplace shootings were reported in North Carolina, Virginia and Massachusetts on Tuesday morning.

Two people were killed and one injured in a what appeared to be a domestic-related shooting at a Louisburg, N.C., business Tuesday morning, reports CBS News affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh.

A man and a woman are dead, and Louisburg police chief Rick Lassiter said the man appears to be the shooter. The injured victim is a woman whose injuries are not life threatening.

Lassiter told WRAL-TV that bullets struck two women inside the office at around 8:45 a.m.

One woman managed to get outside to the parking lot, where she fell over, police said. She was later pronounced dead at the scene.

A second woman sustained a gunshot wound to the hip, but she also get out of the building, police said. She ran toward U.S. Highway 401 and managed to get help from employees at a nearby ACE Hardware store.

The surviving victim was taken to Franklin Regional Hospital. Her wounds were thought to be non-life-threatening.

In Chester, Va., police say an argument in the parking lot of a factory ended when one man pulled out a gun and shot the other man to death, then fled.

Chesterfield County police said the argument happened during the 7 a.m. shift change at Pre Con Industrial.

Police said the victim died at the scene and the suspect drove off in a gold-colored Chevrolet.

In Boston, a man is dead after allegedly shooting a co-worker at a Randolph workplace, then later killing himself.

A spokesman for the Norfolk County District Attorney's office said 48-year-old Howard Trang apparently committed suicide after the shooting at Alloy Fabricators of New England.

Police identified the victim as 52-year-old Gene Dure, who was allegedly shot by Trang in the left arm and abdomen at about 7 a.m.

Police said Trang was found dead on a Randolph street at about 8:30 a.m.

Dure was taken to Caritas Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton. His condition was not immediately available.

[candide777]

Thanks to gun nuts like BillORights, a guy can murder someone and if something goes wrong at trial and he gets acquited, he can walk out of the courthouse, go to his local gun store, buy a gun, and then go to the home of the prosecution''s star witness and thank that witness for testifying against him by putting a bullet in the head of that witness. True, it would be the acquited defendant who killed, not the gun, but why make it so easy for him?

[candide777]

Hey, BillORights, why are you so afraid of explaining to us how my position on gun control could possibly constitute a prior restraint? Care to expound on that, Professor Nitwit?

[candide777]

Fortunately, jurors, especially those few like yourself, do not make sentencing decisions, except in capital cases.
Posted by BillORights at 01:01 PM : Apr 02, 2008

Fortunately, cowboys like BillORights are too busy blogging to be a threat to anyone! LOL I bet BillORights couldn''t hit the broad side of a barn with his gun. LOL

[candide777]

Pro gun people go around talking about how felons can''t legally buy guns but they fail to mention that at least one third of the felonies committed each year do not result in a conviction. Bottom line is that there are a LOT of people running around out there who have committed multiple felonies but never been convicted. There is no way to keep them from legally purchasing guns because that would cut into the gun manufacturers'' profits and they won''t stand for that! They won''t rest until every one in the country feels the need to buy a gun, and they''re making that happen by legally arming people who commit felonies but are too smart to get caught.
Censor this CBS/"BillORights"!

[gunownerdan]

Obviously we need to take the guns out of peoples hands...
Posted by TpaBucGirl

What army are you going to use?

[usbrit-2009]

Hi Bill - yes, you answered the point yesterday for which I thanked you. I lived in LA (actually Seal Beach) at the time of the riots, but I happened to be in England that week. It was decidedly weird watching LA burn with a posh BBC accent on the commentary!! I have to say if I''d owned a gun at that time, I would have carried it with me as well.

[sweetreeeed]

'' .. the stock holders are happy for we are trying to succeed at feeding the world by first refusing almost all volunteers, and then making everyone pay for lunch .. as well we are investing enourmusly in the spanking of lazy naked kids that show at the trail crossings for to hold hands with sick beds and weave bouquets of free food and medicine for each and all forever and ever more .. too we have succeeded in failing to produce qualified producets by producing products ourselfs and refusing to shopgift the answers to the questions asked by the unqualified producets that seek a consult .. to round out the top four, instead of offering to pay off the defaulted debts to others by investing in ourselfs a small refundable up-front deposit, we have accepted relatively infinite debt by selling stocks with all but a promise to pay dividends forever though the vast majority what make such promises inevitably bankrupt within a few short years .. and in closure, we''re taking all the market share tax money armor weapons alcohol and parades away from the smallest children and babys and giving it to the soldiers, for soldiers don''t tend to starve to death and smallest children and babys do .. ''

[usbrit-2009]

I''ll drag a question over from the other forum; How many gun owners listening in have actually used a gun in self defence?

[sweetreeeed]

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[gunownerdan]

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
-- Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishment"(1764)

A-HUMAN-RIGHT.com

[pfd572]

And I bet all of them purchases their guns legally. So there goes the argument that law abiding citizens need to have their guns for protection only. I bet these murderers were law abiding up until they pulled the triggers. And if I am ever in a position to have someone shooting up a workplace, school, etc. I hope I don''t have some gun-toting, trigger-happy ''protector'' shooting his gun off in response. I am just as positive that Mr. Vigilante would shoot the innocent too or be killed by police since they would have no way of knowing who was the bad guy and who was the ''good'' guy. Stupid is as stupid does.

[bobnjersey]

[I doubt I''''d be on the jury in that case, but if I were, I''''d still put the cowboy away under the theory that it would likely save another life or two in the future.]
[Posted by Providense at 12:19 AM : Apr 02, 2008]

then you don''t belong on a jury ... and a good defense attorney would spot you a mile away ... and you wouldn''t have to worry about serving.

[bobnjersey]

[The Ten Commandments were allowed in school at some time in our history? When was this? I don''''t remember it.]
[Posted by catlady1412 at 12:53 AM : Apr 02, 2008]

it was a subliminal thing ... not of the conscious mind.

[guest173]

guns need to be harder to get and the people who get them need to be passing a harder test, not everyone should have a gun (I don''t agree with the constitution about that, they also used to allow slavery at that time too, so the constitution and their founders aren''t perfect)

[langx]

Bush is a Christian. At least he says he is. He''s leading the death scoreboard right now.

How those ten commandments work for our Christian in chief.

[langx]

American Terrorism is done with a gun. Not suicide vests.

It''s all the same though.

Seems we have quite a few terrorists in our own country.

[catlady1412]

The Ten Commandments were allowed in school at some time in our history? When was this? I don''t remember it.

[providense]

What if the innocent bystander was shot as the unavoidable result of saving other lives, perhaps your own?
Posted by BillORights at 10:39 PM : Apr 01, 2008

I doubt I''d be on the jury in that case, but if I were, I''d still put the cowboy away under the theory that it would likely save another life or two in the future.

[sweetreeeed]

'' .. book of physics is but 1 bursting bubble in whirlpools of burstbubble factorys, as when we alter physics by setting goals of low probability that we achieve by forgetting they exist as we think of any & all else .. ''

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[gmond]

ban the workplace