Denver Shooting

[Commander]

Just heard there was a shooting at a Denver Safeway distribution warehouse. Shooter entered the warehouse and shot several workers inside. I wonder if the Denver ban on handguns in the city kept any of the workers from carrying a weapon. You can make all the laws you want, but only the law abiding will observe them.

[longtooth]

You can know it did keep them from being armed & encouraged the shooter by knowing it had to be virtually gun free.

[HighVelocity]

Gunman killed after deadly Denver rampageMELISSA TRUJILLO
Associated Press
DENVER - A gunman opened fire Sunday afternoon at a Safeway Inc. distribution center, killing one person and injuring five others, including a police officer, before police shot and killed the shooter.

Denver Fire Chief Larry Trujillo said multiple fires were set in one area of the building with what appeared to be products from the center, and one fire was set in another area. He would not say whether the gunman was suspected of setting them.

Safeway worker Jesus Lopez told KMGH-TV he was about 20 feet away from the gunman. "He was just shooting and lighting fires. He wanted to turn the building on fire," Lopez said. "I just ran. Everybody just ran out."

More than 150 employees who were working at the time evacuated the building, Police Chief Gerry Whitman said.

"I've never been through anything like this," said meat department employee Scott Stroman, in his second week on the job. He said the gunshots sounded like faint popping sounds from another part of the building.

"Other employees came running up and said `hey, let's get out of here,'" Stroman said. Officers were already on the scene when he got outside.

Two shooting victims were in critical condition; two were in serious condition, including the officer shot in the leg by the suspect; and one was in fair condition, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. None of the victims was identified.

Police received a report of shootings around 3 p.m. and entered the distribution center near Interstate 70 to find four victims.

About an hour after entering the warehouse, officers found the suspect, who shot SWAT officer Derick Dominguez, 38, in the left hip, Whitman said. Dominguez suffered a broken leg. An officer shot and killed the suspect, Whitman said.

As officers swept through the 1.3 million-square-foot center, they found another victim who had died.

Dominguez said that all the victims were men. Whitman said there was no reason to believe there was more than one suspect.

Safeway spokesman Jeff Stroh said parts of the warehouse would reopen Monday and that store officials had contacted grief counselors.

Stroman said his wife and six children kept calling him after hearing about the shootings. He said it was strange to think it could happen at Safeway.

"Where I work, everybody gets along," he said.

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