{"id":105199,"date":"2017-06-05T23:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=105199"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:43:59","slug":"sheriff-fired-worker-killed-5-shot-self-as-siren-neared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/06\/05\/sheriff-fired-worker-killed-5-shot-self-as-siren-neared\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff: Fired worker killed 5, shot self as siren neared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla.\u2014A man who was fired from a Florida awning factory in April returned Monday with a semi-automatic pistol and methodically killed five people, then took his own life at the sound of an approaching siren, authorities said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy rybelsus online <a href=\"https:\/\/pelmeds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/rybelsus.html\">https:\/\/pelmeds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/rybelsus.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings identified the shooter as John Robert Neumann Jr., a 45-year-old Army veteran who lived alone and did not appear to belong to any type of subversive or terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting began after Neumann slipped through a rear door into the cavernous Fiamma Inc. factory, an area larger than two football fields where awnings are stitched together for recreational vehicles. He paused at least once to reload.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy experience tells me that this individual made deliberate thought to do what he did today. He had a plan of action,\u201d said the sheriff, who wouldn&#8217;t say why Neumann was fired. The gunman \u201chad a negative relationship with\u201d at least one of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was certainly singling out the individuals he shot,\u201d Demings said, adding that most victims were shot in the head. Some were shot multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>State and federal law enforcement officers converged on the industrial park in Orlando shortly after 8 a.m. after a woman ran out and called 911 from a tile business across the street, said Yamaris Gomez, that store&#8217;s owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll she kept saying was he was holding a gun and told her to get out,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>That woman had been hired after Neumann was fired in April, so he probably did not recognize her and knew she was not a former co-worker, Deming said.<\/p>\n<p>Searching for a motive, deputies cordoned off a trailer park in Maitland, where Neumann lived alone in a mobile home on a busy road next to a funeral home, a used car lot and a dog-grooming business. Like the awning factory, it&#8217;s far from Orlando&#8217;s famous theme parks.<\/p>\n<p>Deming said investigators also are looking through any social media postings for clues. Neumann was honourably discharged in 1999 and did not have a concealed weapons permit, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n<p>Arnie Boyd, who lives in the same trailer park, said Neumann was not particularly social. \u201cEvery once in a while, he would ride his bike around and that&#8217;s it,\u201d Boyd said. \u201cWe would speak only once in a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dead were identified as Robert Snyder, 69; Brenda Montanez-Crespo, 44; Kevin Clark, 53; Jeffrey Roberts, 57; and Kevin Lawson, 46.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had confronted Neumann once before at the factory, when he was accused of battering a co-worker in June 2014. But no charges were filed, and that co-worker was not among Monday&#8217;s victims, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2014 incident report, Neumann&#8217;s co-worker said Neumann punched him in the back of the head when he approached, knocking him to the ground. But the co-worker later changed his story, saying that Neumann had chased him and then hit him on the back of the head.<\/p>\n<p>Neumann had a record of minor crimes, none violent, dating back nearly 20 years. Most involved traffic violations _ driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license, giving a deputy a false name and leaving the scene of a hit-and-run involving property damage.<\/p>\n<p>Fiamma calls itself one of the largest manufacturers of awnings for camper vans, motor coaches and sport utility vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Shelley Adams said her sister, Sheila McIntyre, called her from the company&#8217;s bathroom during the shooting and kept repeating, \u201cMy boss is dead. My boss is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived two minutes after being dispatched, the sheriff said. The FBI also responded, said Ron Hopper, who runs the FBI&#8217;s Orlando office.<\/p>\n<p>And while five people were killed, \u201cseven others&#8217; lives were saved due to the quick actions of the officers who arrived on the scene today,\u201d said Special Agent Danny Banks of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had no reports of any specific threats the gunman made to people at the company or anyone else, but that&#8217;s why people need to alert authorities whenever they learn of anything that could lead to violence, Banks said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people see something that seems abnormal, they need to say something,\u201d Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs added.<\/p>\n<p>The latest government statistics indicate that fatal workplace shootings have ticked upward in the United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show a 2 per cent rise between 2014 and 2015 to 417 cases. Among those, fatal shootings rose more sharply, by 15 per cent.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zithromax online <a href=\"https:\/\/pelmeds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zithromax.html\">https:\/\/pelmeds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/zithromax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bill Nelson called for more action to address mental health issues. He noted that next Monday will mark a year since the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, at a gay nightclub in Orlando. The attack at the Pulse club killed 49 people and wounded dozens more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city of Orlando, which is still healing from the Pulse massacre, has seen too much violence this past year,\u201d the Florida Democrat said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Gov. Rick Scott asked \u201call Floridians to pray for the families impacted by this senseless act of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla.\u2014A man who was fired from a Florida awning factory in April returned Monday with a semi-automatic pistol and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-terrance-harris","mauthors-mike-schneider","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282239,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105199\/revisions\/282239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}