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OFFICIALS HAVE IDENTIFIED the three men killed after a UPS driver opened fire during a meeting at a company warehouse in San Francisco.
San Francisco’s chief medical examiner identified the victims as 50-year-old Benson Louie and 56-year-old Wayne Chan, both of San Francisco; and 46-year-old Michael Lefiti, of Hercules.
Police say the three UPS drivers were killed by 38-year-old Jimmy Lam, who fatally shot himself in the head in front of officers.
A motive in the killings has not been determined.
A union official says the gunman had filed a grievance complaining that he was working excessive overtime.
Joseph Cilia, an official with a local Teamsters Union, says Lam’s grievance filed in March requested that UPS relieve him of working overtime going forward.
Still, Cilia says Lam wasn’t angry, and he could not understand why he would open fire on his colleagues at the meeting yesterday.
Cilia says two other drivers who were wounded have been released from hospital.
Lefiti’s cousin, Bob Toia, told the San Francisco Chronicle Lefiti was devoted to his wife and children. Isaiah Miggins, a co-worker at UPS, said Lefiti was a big man, but humble and always happy.
People have set up a memorial with flowers and balloons at a local supermarket near the UPS warehouse.
‘Frightful scene’
Authorities say they’re interviewing the families of victims and witnesses to piece together the sequence of events.
Assistant Police Chief Toney Chaplin told reporters authorities found two victims outside and others inside, calling it a “frightful scene”.
He says officers didn’t fire at the gunman, but that he shot himself when they confronted him.
Chaplin says police won’t know more information about weapon until they test-fire it.
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A very similar incident happened in Glasgow. The body of the man turned out to be a homeless man who had climbed into the large skip like wheelie bin to sleep. He’d died from natural causes. RIP
RIP
@ Monica …. People don’t joke about this sort of thing here on the journal…. It’s much worse you will see comments saying gangland this n that .. He deserved it probably a drug dealer … One less … Ect ect
Truth is nobody knows they just mouth and sprout out of them
RIP. and I hope the lads who found him get over the shock of it .
I wasn’t refereing to the journal There were posts of people joking about the poor chaps death They have been removed now
I rest my case Monika
See the red thumbs monika see what there like….. vultures …any way to moan
A friend of mine found another corpse under a seat @ James Joyces Bridge yesterday !!!! Numerous people walked on by ! She was the only one to check the poor divil & alert the Guards !!
Really not good time for jokes
RIP
So sad, what an undignified end to a life. I hope he didn’t suffer.
Feel so sorry for the workers who found him, be such a shock.
ar dheis dei go raibh a anim dilis.
Aren’t people entitled to a opinion on this, apart from the jokers,if people assume its gangland let them say so is this not the point of this app
It’s one thing to have an opinion but it’s another to be disrespectful
By assuming how he died? That’s not disrespectful
I agree with you but I don’t agree that it should be any less tragic if was gangland related
Regular occurrence in the waste industry all across the world , not just an Irish thing
May he RIP with The Lord .
My god what has this country come to… poor fella :0(
As tragic as it is , and if that was me found dead in the back of a truck , would I expect jokes o yeah, would I be bothered hell no. I find that sick jokes tend to hurt more when your a live. In this instance I just hope he didn’t suffer too much.
It’s family and friends that lost a loved one and last thing they need is immature poeople joking about it
Exactly, Monica.
Was wondering where all the sickos where
Did somebody mention Ballyer.
Very misleading headline really
Oxigen…see the E. Your google machine needs a new operator
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