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I woke up this morning to read in the paper that there was a shooting at my brother’s work. I immediately called him, since the vague article suggested there was an employee fatality. He answered, pretty shook up. They sent all the employees home after the shooting at 7:30am. While he wasn’t in the building at the time, he was walking up to it, and heard the gunshots and watched people burst out of the building in panic. He’s OK, but one of his bosses died. The shooter, also an employee, was killed in a firefight with a police officer down the road. There’s a lot of messed up details and he’s pretty upset that someone could go off the rails like that on a pretty good boss. It sounds like there were a lot of witnesses. I hope counseling is provided for all employees who need it. It’s a small community, and it is likely that both people were well known by most of the town.  I hope they support each other with dealing with this unexpected violence.

UPDATE: My brother is still pretty shook up. Many co-workers have quit, making his job more stressful, and he had to remove graffiti left by the shooter. All the employees are supporting each other, though. He may still decide to quit (he had lots of valid reasons before this happened), which he has my full support on.