GOLETA, Calif. - A female ex-postal worker opened fire at a mail processing plant, killing six people and critically wounding another before committing suicide in what's believed to be the deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman.
The rampage, the first deadly shooting at a postal installation in nearly eight years, sent employees running Monday night from the sprawling complex and prompted authorities to warn nearby residents to stay indoors as they searched for a suspect.
Authorities responding to a report of shots fired at 9:15 p.m. found two people dead outside the plant, blocks from University of California, Santa Barbara.
Two wounded women were found inside; one died and the other was listed in critical condition Tuesday with a gunshot wound to the head.
Nearly five hours after the two bodies were found, deputies discovered four additional bodies, including one believed to be the shooter. The suspect, who was not identified, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Anderson said.
It was the deadliest shooting at any workplace since 2003, when 48-year-old Doug Williams gunned down 14 co-workers, killing six, at a Lockheed Martin aircraft parts plant in Meridian, Miss., before turning the gun on himself.
James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University and an expert on homicides, said he believed the death toll might be the highest ever for any workplace shooting carried out by a woman.
It also was the bloodiest at a Postal Service facility since 1986, when a letter carrier killed 14 people in Edmond, Okla., and then took his own life. Postal facilities were the scene of a series of high-profile shootings in the mid-1980s and early '90s.
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