Unhappy worker shoots 3
27/01/2005 10:02  - (SA)  

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Toledo, Ohio - An employee of a Jeep production plant who had recently been disciplined shot three co-workers, one fatally, before killing himself, police said.

The shooting happened in the plant's body shop office about 20:45 on Wednesday, police Chief Mike Navarre said. The gunman told a woman working there to summon three people whom he wanted to kill, Navarre said.

Two of the three male victims were supervisors, including the one who died, police said.

Navarre said the gunman pointed his double-barrel shotgun at the woman working in the office, but said he wasn't going to shoot her. "He gave her three names. He told her who he wanted and who he was going to shoot," Navarre said.

The woman got on a radio and called one of the men. Another man walked into the office, and the gunman shot him. That employee later died.

Warned co-workers

The woman then ran out of the office and warned co-workers over the radio, Navarre said. The police chief said he did not know if the two other victims didn't hear the women's plea on the radio or if they were already in the office.

Navarre did not release the victims' names. The gunman, identified as Myles Meyers, 54, of Toledo, shot himself in the head, police said. The woman was not harmed.

Mary Beth Halprin, a spokesperson for DaimlerChrysler, Jeep's parent company, said the gunman was disciplined recently for a minor infraction, but did not have details.

No one answered the door at Meyers' house, which is about 6km from the plant. A woman who answered the phone at the home early on Thursday said she had no comment and hung up.

Dispatchers had received 15 to 20 calls from people inside the plant, and employees were fleeing the facility when authorities arrived on the scene.

"It was pretty chaotic for a good 20 to 25 minutes," Navarre said. Officers were chasing after employees, not knowing who the shooter was, and not realising that he was already dead.

The plant, which opened in 1997, employs almost 4 500 people on two shifts.

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