On Tuesday, a man walked to the Hartford Distributors in Manchester, Conn., at about 7 a.m. and opened fire, killing a total of nine people and leaving a couple of others wounded. According to the New York Times, the recent Connecticut shooting spree claimed the lives of union representatives, truck drivers and a relative of the owner who worked there.
Is the Connecticut shooting linked to racism?
The Connecticut shooting suspect was an employee of the Hartford Distributors, a beer and distributor company. Omar S. Thornton, who was 34-years old, was employed as a warehouse driver. Thornton was accused of stealing beer from the business and was asked to resign. He was awaiting a disciplinary listening to. Nevertheless, as outlined by ABC News, those close to him believe racism may have had something to do with the Connecticut shooting.
Joanne Hannah, mother of Thornton’s girlfriend, says that Thornton had complained about being racially harassed at work, claiming he discovered an image of “a noose and a racial epithet written on a bathroom wall.” Thornton, a black man, had apparently brought up the issue to his supervisors, but nobody responded to his complaints. “Everybody’s got a breaking point,” Hannah said.
Disgruntled worker makes headlines with Connecticut shooting
The Hartford Distribution Connecticut shooting spree is the nation’s deadliest rampage since the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting that took place last November, an event that also involved a disgruntled worker. A military psychiatrist shot more than 40 people and killed 13 individuals at one of the largest military bases in the United States.
On Friday Nov. 6, just 24 hours after the Fort Hood shooting, gunman Jason Rodriguez walked into the offices of Reynolds Smith and Hills in Orlando, Fla., and killed one person and wounded five others. The shooter, who was a previous employee of the firm, was fired from his job two years before the incident. Since then, Rodriguez started working at Subway and had eventually filed for bankruptcy. According to CNN, when asked why he committed the terrible crime, Rodriguez replied: “Because they left me to rot.”
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