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Newspaper: Gainesville Sun
Date: December 6, 2001

Headline: Factory Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 6 Wounded

Who: As many of 35 people were feared shot.
What: They were feared shot on Thursday.
When: This shooting happened Thrusday.
Where: They were shot on Thursday at a wood factory in Goshen Indiana.
Why: The man who did the shooting was described as a disgrunted employee.
Emplotee's told the police that the suspect had just been fired or was getting fired.

As many as 35 people were feared shot at a factory in Goshen, Indiana. People say that the man suspected of the shooting had just been fires or was getting fired. The suspect was at large but the police did not immediately enter the wood factory after the shooting was reported. No deaths were reported, but hospitals treated at least 3 people for gun shot wounds.



	Factory Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 6 Wounded GOSHEN, Ind. - An employee who had gotten into an angry dispute Thursday with a co-worker at a milling factory here returned with a gun, shot the man to death and wounded six others before turning the gun on himself. A dozen nearby plants were evacuated during the gunfire, and students at a grade school and a small college were told to stay inside. Emergency workers were asked to prepare for more than 30 casualties. But when a SWAT team entered the Nu-Wood Decorative Millwork plant on the edge of town, it discovered the shooter with a self-inflicted wound, officials said. ''He was dead when they found him,'' said Capt. Julie Dijkstra of the Elkhart County Sheriff's Office. The dead and injured were not immediately identified. Two of the wounded were listed in serious condition at area hospitals late Thursday. The shooting prompted several emergency measures in this quiet, northern Indiana community of 29,000. Some students at the nearby elementary school already had gone home by bus, but others were held indoors until the gunman was found. Similarly, Goshen College, run by Mennonites, told students and faculty not to leave their buildings. Goshen General Hospital was asked to prepare for as many as 35 casualties, but ultimately the total was far fewer. Alerted by a 911 call from a nearby business, police surrounded the Nu-Wood factory, which makes simulated wood from plastic for decorative trimming. Officers cordoned off the area, and a dozen ambulances lined up close by. The SWAT team entered the plant and found the shooter with a gun near his body. By late afternoon, rescue crews began removing the wounded, some on stretchers. Because the plant is small, some of the injured knew one another. Indeed, the town itself is so small, said Herb Stein, a Nu-Wood sales representative, ''everybody knows each other.'' The rampage apparently was sparked by an argument earlier in the day between the gunman and a co-worker, said Michele Oswald, whose husband, Greg Oswald, is general manager at the Nu-Wood plant. During the argument, the gunman, who worked in the manufacturing area of the single-story building, threatened to get a gun and kill the other man who worked on ''the line,'' processing and cutting mouldings, Oswald said. Supervisors told the shooter to go home and cool off, and he agreed, Oswald said. Employees then called police, Oswald said, and were told there was nothing they could do at the time but to call 911 if the man returned. ''All I know is, he came back and started shooting,'' Oswald said. With workers at Nu-Wood scrambling for cover and fleeing out a rear door, the first call to 911 came from another factory in the small industrial complex. The suspect was found dead near the rear of the building, police said. It was unclear how many guns he carried, and some witnesses reported that he was firing an automatic weapon, while a paramedic at the scene said the suspect had fired a 12-gauge shotgun. As many as 35 workers were in the plant at the time of the shooting. One called police from inside and advised the SWAT team about what route to use to enter the building, Police Chief Terry Schollian said. Nu-Wood makes a polyurethane-based product that resembles white pine. Homebuilders and remodelers use it as decorative molding, brackets and louvers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------