![]() ![]() Thornton promptly hid in a locked office. Police entered the building ten minutes after the first 911 call. Police arrived on the scene just three minutes after the first 911 call. Many employees made calls to 911, with some callers identifying Thornton. In just a few minutes, Thornton murdered eight coworkers and seriously injured two others. Instead of leaving, he took a Ruger SR9 semi-automatic pistol from his lunchbox and opened fire.Īt the time Thornton started shooting, there were around 40 employees in the building. Given the options of being fired or resigning, Thornton signed the resignation papers and was being escorted out of the building. Hartford Distributors is a wholesale distributor of Budweiser beer products and wine. ![]() He was also implicated in the theft of empty beer kegs. Thornton had been recorded on surveillance video in the Hartford Distributors warehouse stealing beer on a previous occasion. Thornton, aged 34, was called into his place of employment for disciplinary purposes. The gunman, former employee Omar Sheriff Thornton (born April 25, 1976) shot and killed eight male coworkers before turning a gun on himself. The location of the crime was a warehouse owned by Hartford Distributors, a beer distribution company. The Hartford Distributors shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on August 3, 2010, in Manchester, Connecticut, United States. Mass shooting, murder–suicide, workplace shootingĮmployee disgruntled over getting fired alleged racial prejudice ![]()
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