Black SoCal Edison Shooter Andre Turner Killed Robert Lindsay, 53, and Henry Serrano, 56; and Wounded Angela Alvarez, 46, and Abhay Pimpale, 38

 

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3 people are dead and 2 people are injured after a gunman opens fire in an office building. He then, [sic] turned the gun on himself. NBC4's Lolita Lopez reports.
 
Edison Gunman, Victims Identified
Andre Turner opened fire on co-workers with a semi-automatic weapon on Friday, killing two people before turning the gun on himself
By Annette Arreola, Sharon Bernstein, Olsen Ebright and Jonathan Lloyd
Saturday, Dec 17, 2011 | Updated 6:16 PM PST

Two men who died after a co-worker opened fire at a Southern California Edison facility in Irwindale have been identified as Henry Serrano, 56, of Walnut, and Robert Lindsay, 53, of Chino, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office said Saturday.

The gunman, who committed suicide after a rampage that killed two people and wounded two others, has also been identified. He was Andre Turner, 48, of Norco.

Turner is reported to have been facing possible foreclosure on his 7-figure home, now worth half of what the Turners paid for it years ago. Foreclosing on the property was an option that Turner seemed to be accepting, according to his realtor.

Additional victims that were wounded include Angela Alvarez, 46, of Glendale, and Abhay Pimpale, 38, of Montebello. Both were transported to USC Hospital, and their conditions are unknown.

"This is one of the most horrible days in our company’s history,” said Ted Craver, CEO of Edison International, parent company of SCE. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the employees.”

Employees at the Irwindale facility will not return to work Monday as investigators are still trying to determine the motive for Friday's shooting, calling the process laborious and enormous.

"It's a slow process," said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department. "There's a lot of people to interview - eleven hundred people work there."

Homicide detectives, who are also investigating a deputy-involved shooting in Lincoln Heights on Saturday morning and another in the City of Industry early Friday, left the Irwindale scene at 3 a.m. Saturday.

"It's been a busy 24 hours" for the homicide bureau, Whitmore said.

In a press release, the company promised to set up a fund for victims and survivors, and said it would provide grief counseling and other services for employees and families. The utility also confirmed that Turner was an employee.

The shootings took place at about 1:30 p.m. Friday at an Edison facility on Rivergrade Road. The building primarily houses employees who work in Edison's Information Technology and Transmission and Distribution divisions, the company said.

Turner is believed to have used a semi-automatic handgun in his murderous spree.

After the shooting on Friday, dozens of people were seen leaving the building in a single-file line, holding their hands in the air.

"We heard a lot of sirens and helicopters overhead. We heard over the PA system that there was an emergency," said Tammy Gann of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, which works in the same building.

Authorities said they were combing the rooms of the three-story office complex which requires an authorized card swipe to enter the building.

Southern California Edison locked down all of its facilities this afternoon upon learning of the gunman, but those restrictions have since been lifted on all but the Rivergrade facility, which was almost exclusively information technology-based.
One man told NBC4 News that he received texts from his daughter who was in the building at the time.

“The shooter was working today and talked to my big boss five minutes before he started shooting,” the man said, reading the message on his phone.

Another man with a relative in the building said she texted him to tell him that two people had been shot. The worker told him the gunman walked in and told a manager he was going to shoot him before opening fire.

Two nearby schools were placed on lockdown due to police activity. [N.S.: Bull. The schools were placed on lockdown, due to the criminal activities of one Andre Turner. Who snuck that one in?]

Around 2:30 p.m., students at Walnut Elementary School were dismissed, said Cynthia Cuevas, Baldwin Park Unified School Assistant Superintendent.

At Olive Junior High School, which was also on lockdown, worried parents flocked to pick up their children when a staggered release began at around 3 p.m. Friday.

"Your children are safe," Cuevas said. [Maybe.]
 

[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:

Was Black SoCal Edison Mass Shooter Andre Turner Motivated by Racism?;

“Mass Murderer was a ‘Hero,’ Say Blacks” (Charles “Cookie” Thornton’s Kirkwood Massacre);

“Family: Racism caused Conn. gunman to snap” (Omar Thornton’s Manchester Massacre);

Stories Related to Shareef Allman’s Cupertino Mass Shooting;

Omar Thornton II: Shareef Allman was Beloved by Blacks, but was a Paranoid, Racist Employee from Hell Who Endangered Everyone Else (contains links to related articles);

“Finally, Two Reporters Start Giving the Truth about Racist Black Mass Shooter, Shareef Allman!”; and

“Wikipedia’s Censors are Hard at Work, Ensuring That Readers Do Not Learn about Crimes Committed by Members of ‘Protected Classes’ Against Members of ‘Non-Protected’ Classes.”]