MINNEAPOLIS — The shooter who opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign company was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday and was among several people killed in the attack, the city’s deputy police chief said....
Minneapolis Police Deputy Chief Kris Arneson, during an evening news conference, would not release details about the victims, but said the shooter’s body was found inside the building....
Dozens of squad cars and police vehicles were still surrounding the business in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood by Thursday evening.
Traffic was stopped on a nearby bridge along Penn Avenue, where earlier in the day law enforcement officers had rifles pointed at a park below.
People from the neighborhood milled around but deputies kept them back.
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"Parents were worried about 36-year-old before he killed five people
MINNEAPOLIS — Andrew Engeldinger’s parents were worried about their son’s growing paranoia. In 2010, they sought help, enrolling in a 12-week class for families of the mentally ill. For the last 21 months, the family said they reached out in hopes he would seek treatment. It was to no avail. On Thursday, they learned he was the gunman in Minnesota’s deadliest workplace shooting. Police say Engeldinger, 36, fatally shot five people and injured three at Accent Signage Systems before turning the gun on himself (AP)."
Was he on drugs?
Oh, that was the reason?
"Grandparents could face charges" by KYLE POTTER and AMY FORLITI | Associated Press, January 12, 2013
LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. — A 24-year-old man discovered living in Minnesota under an assumed name was abducted by his paternal grandparents nearly two decades ago when his unemployed mother was living in a car in Indiana, authorities said Friday.
The grandparents could face federal charges in the case, a Minnesota sheriff said....
The then-5-year-old boy’s mother and stepfather were unemployed and lived in a car, recalled John R. Russell, who spent several months investigating Richard Wayne Landers Jr.s’ disappearance in 1994 when he was a road deputy for the LaGrange County Sheriff’s Department, recalled. The grandparents “were nice people. It was wrong for them to do it, but I can understand why,’’ he said.
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