Aurora workplace shooter was set to be fired by company, police chief says foxnews.com

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. The suspect, identified as Gary Martin, 45, of Aurora, used a handgun and had worked for Mueller Water Products for 15 years, she said. He was killed at the scene. “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.”