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| Man Kills Hostage, Self at NASA Building | ||
| 2007-04-21 | ||
NASA identified the slain hostage as David Beverly, a civil servant who worked at the agency. Beverly, who was shot in the chest, was probably killed "in the early minutes of the whole ordeal," police said. A second hostage, identified by NASA as Fran Crenshaw, escaped after being bound to a chair with duct tape, police Capt. Dwayne Ready said. That can be harder to do than you might think! The gunman was able to take a snub-nosed revolver past NASA security and barricade himself in the building, which houses communications and tracking systems for the space shuttle, authorities said. NASA spokesman Doug Peterson said the agency would review its security. You mean "security", right? "Any organization would take a good, hard look at the kind of review process we have with people," Peterson said. To enter the space center, workers flash an ID badge as they drive past a security guard. The badge allows workers access to designated buildings. The gunman, an employee of Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, Calif., shot himself once in the head more than three hours after the standoff began, police said. Should have shot himself in the head twice to make sure he was dead, but I guess he got lucky and one was enough. In any case, thanks for sparing us the expense and drama of a trial. Initial reports indicated two shots were fired about 1:40 p.m. and another shot was heard about 5 p.m. John Prosser, executive vice president of Jacobs Engineering, confirmed that the gunman was a company employee but declined to release any information about him. Mike Coats, the director of the Johnson Space Center, said Phillips had worked for NASA for 12 to 13 years and "up until recently, he has been a good employee."
Won't name the third because she's still alive, eh? During the confrontation, NASA employees in the building were evacuated and others were ordered to remain in their offices for several hours. Roads within the 1,600-acre space center campus were also blocked off, and a nearby middle school kept its teachers and students inside as classes ended. Doors to Mission Control were locked as standard procedure. | ||
| Posted by:gorb |
| #4 What sucks is that it was a government facility. Meaning no firearms allowed for personnel in there. Only those old fatass Fed Protective service types. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-04-21 22:47 |
| #3 So, David Beverly emails a crappy job performance review to Bill Phillips, Phillips prints it out a day later, in March, and then buys a gun. My guess is old Bill just wanted to discuss the finer points of being called a quiet loner with no job skills, and things got out of hand. |
| Posted by: Punky Glick9152 2007-04-21 18:50 |
| #2 Two shots fired? Two people Killed? This was NOT a "shooting", this was a planned murder. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-04-21 13:12 |
| #1 Okay. Show of hands. How many thought it was me? |
| Posted by: Ex Astronaut Lisa Nowak 2007-04-21 11:55 |