8.5.99 Recipients-- Another "Manchurian" killer goes gun-crazy in Alabama. Need we say more?? NewsHawk Inc. = = = = = = = = = = = = = WIRE:Aug. 5, 0:40 p.m. ET Gumnman kills three in Alabama office shootings PELHAM, Ala., (Reuters) - A gunman shot and killed three people on Thursday in two office buildings in Pelham, Alabama, police said. A police spokesman said that a suspect had been detained after the incident, the latest in a series of multiple shootings in recent months in the United States. It happened just a week after a disgruntled stock market day trader bludgeoned his wife and two children to death and then went on a shooting rampage at two Atlanta brokerages, killing nine people. Local Police Chief Alan Wade said that the suspect in Pelham, a 34-year-old white male, opened fire at the office where he worked and at the place he formerly worked. The man was detained when police hunting for him pulled him over in his vehicle on a nearby highway. He was held after a brief scuffle, Wade said. Pelham is a small city south of Birmingham. Local television stations reported that the man arrested in the Pelham incident had been fired and that one of the people he shot was his former boss. Copyright 1999 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
