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Another Ex-Police Fruitcake Shooter

Mike

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Maybe we should start locking up all the Ex-police/law enforcement nutjobs out there?


Updated: Ihlenfeld ID's Shooter as Former Wheeling Police Officer

October 9, 2013

The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register


WHEELING -- A man who reportedly fired more than 20 shots into the Wheeling Federal Building has died, authorities said.

The man has not yet been identified, though U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld told WV MetroNews that the shooter was a former Wheeling police officer. A security guard at the Federal Building also received minor injuries during the shooting rampage, U.S. Marshal Chief deputy Mike Claxton said.

The shooting occurred about 2:30 p.m. today. Police have not yet released a motive.

The Federal Building may not have been the man's only target, as an eyewitness to the shooting said he also may have been targeting the nearby Wheeling YWCA.

Wheeling resident Carla Webb Daniels said she witnessed the shooter fire from the Chase Bank parking lot across Chapline Street from the Federal Building. Daniels said she was in her attorney's office when she heard loud gun shots. When she looked out she saw a white male standing between a silver or gold SUV and a white vehicle in the parking lot pull out a gun and start shooting at the federal building. She then saw the shooter put down the assault rifle and reload before shooting at the YWCA building.

"I was so nervous, I couldn't believe it," Daniels said. "People were scared and were banging on the doors asking to be let in."

A local store manger, who asked to not be named, said she was working in the back of her shop on 12th Street when she heard loud shots. She said she went to the front of the store and heard a series of fast pops. She said it sounded like the shooter had two different guns based on the different sounds of the shots fired.
 
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