Another tragic case of workplace violence this morning...when a man opened fire at a power plant in Missouri. Elizabeth Sanchez reports from Los Angeles.
Swat teams surrounded the building, guns ready. As police led stunned workers ...through a snowy path..outside a Saint Louis factory..
Four people including the gunman are dead, at least five others wounded. After a man with an assault rifle opened fire inside the ABB plant.
Officers put the area in lockdown as they searched the building, room by room for the killer.
About four hours after the crisis began came word the gunman had been found inside and that according to local reports he had shot and killed himself.
The shooter, 51 year old Timothy Herndon worked on the plant's assembly line . The motive for the shooting isn't clear but the gunman was involved in a lawsuit over the company's retirement plan.
As the violence unfolded inside the plant, witnesses say the scene was pure chaos.
It started just as the morning shift was getting underway...about 6:30 local time.
Workers hid in boiler rooms and closets and escaped onto rooftops, waiting to be rescued. Stretchers arrived in ambulances slowed by the thick layer of snow.
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