MANCHESTER, Conn. — A warehouse worker who had been called in to resign his job at a beer distributor opened fire there Tuesday morning, a company executive said, and at least three people were shot.
State police would not immediately confirm whether anyone was killed or what happened to the gunman. A fire at the warehouse, about 10 miles east of Hartford, was put out.
“We’re now just trying to figure out who’s shot, who’s not accounted for,” said Brett Hollander, the director of marketing at Hartford Distributors. About 50 to 70 people were inside because it was a shift change, he said.
Hollander’s cousin, a vice president at the company, was shot in the arm and the face, Hollander said, but he thought he would be OK. Hollander saw only one ambulance leave the warehouse, and it was carrying his cousin. He had not seen anyone else who was injured come out of the warehouse.
South Windsor police Sgt. Scott Custer would not say how many were hurt or how badly, only that several people were “down.”
Hollander, whose family owns the distributor, said he did not know the shooter well and didn’t know how long he had worked there.
Police officers from numerous agencies and police and fire vehicles surrounded the warehouse, on a tree-lined road in an industrial park just west of a shopping mall. A SWAT team with a police dog was walking around the property a couple of hours after the 7 a.m. shooting.
