Details Emerge On Yesterday’s Aurora Shooter

As we mentioned yesterday, an active shooter situation broke out at a warehouse near Chicago.

We now have more details, and they’re truly heartbreaking.

Five civilians have been killed, and five officers have been injured.

According to Fox News:

The gunman in a deadly shooting spree at a manufacturing warehouse in Aurora, Ill., where five employees were killed and five officers were wounded Friday, was set to be fired by the company, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters at a news conference Friday night.

Truly difficult to stomach.

The suspect, identified as Gary Martin, 45, of Aurora, used a handgun and had worked for the Henry Pratt Co. — one of the largest makers of industrial water valves — for 15 years, she said. He was killed at the scene. The attack lasted 90 minutes.

“We don’t whether he had the gun on him at the time or if he went to retrieve it,” Ziman said, adding that authorities were not sure if Martin planned the shooting. “We can only surmise with a gentleman who was being terminated that this was something he intended to do, I’m not sure.”

It was not immediately known if the victims were the managers who were firing Martin. The company employs around 200 people, but authorities were not sure how many were in the 29,000-square-foot warehouse at the time of the shooting.

The shooter’s mother says he was “stressed out” at the time of the shooting:

A woman claiming to be Martin’s mother told the Chicago Sun-Times her son was “stressed out” before the shooting.

“He was way too stressed out,” she said. She declined to tell the paper her name and did not specify why he was stressed.

HOWEVER, records show this man already had a history of violence.

Court records show Martin had a conviction for stabbing a woman in Mississippi in 1994, according to the paper.

Which makes you wonder… was he ALLOWED to have a gun in the first place? I’m assuming STABBING SOMEONE makes you a felon. In which case… “gun laws” failed yet again.