
In the American state, Oregon Armed criminal burst into the drug laboratory and arranged shooting there. As a result, 2 people died, and two more were injured. Among the dead was the attacker himself who committed suicide.
The massacre occurred in the town of Tulatin, located 20 kilometers south of Portland, writes The New York Daily News with reference to the head of the local police of Kent Barker. In Tulatin there is a laboratory for the analysis of drugs Legacy Metrolab, where the shooter burst. According to preliminary information, the motive for the crime was jealousy of the murdered woman.
According to the investigation, the criminal with a rifle entered the laboratory at about 12:00 Tuesday. He shot one woman, wounded the other two employees of the institution, and then shot himself.
The victims were delivered to the nearest hospital with wounds of varying severity, reports orlandosentinel.com .
Some of the witnesses saw how one of the women in a bloodied laboratory overalls jumped out of the building and took refuge in a shopping shop located at the nearest metro station. According to the metro employee Alina Kurtavenao, the victim was visible on the forehead and on the leg.
“She did not scream and did not panic. I think she had a shock,” the eyewitness explained.
“There were about six people in the laboratory,” added Travis Bonser, a cashier located opposite the Chase bank.
We add that in this laboratory tests are carried out for the content of various narcotic drugs and alcohol in the human body. Often, employers are turning to these specialists with a request to check their subordinates.
Tulatin is a small city. It lives 26 thousand inhabitants.
Just a few hours before the massacre in Tulatin, American police officers prevented a similar crime in the suburbs of New York. There, an armed man with a gun burst into the school building. The attacker took hostage to the administrator of the educational institution, but after negotiations with the police surrendered.
Another similar case occurred at the end of last week. Then 40-year-old Jason Rodriguez opened shooting at one of the business centers of the city of Orlando of Florida. As a result, two people were killed, and six more received various injuries. All people from the building were urgently evacuated.
The criminal was arrested a few hours later. Later it turned out that he shot at his former colleagues: some time ago he was fired from the company for "unable to cope with his duties."