Aurora, IL, an armed man who shot and killed 5 promised to kill all his colleagues when he was fired

April 29, 2019, 14:59 UTC

By Associated press

CHICAGO – The shooter who opened fire in February on a manufacturing plant located in the suburbs of Chicago, killing five colleagues before being killed by police, told a colleague the morning of the shooting that occurred. he was going to kill all the other employees and "Blow up the police," said the prosecutor in a report released Monday.

Henry Pratt Co.'s employee told authorities in Aurora that he knew that Gary Martin was carrying a firearm in his vehicle, but that he did not report Martin's comments to his superiors because he regularly "improvised" statements and that I believe that Martin would do anything violent, according to the report of the Kane County Prosecutor's Office, consisting of nine pages.

It was widely reported that Martin had been fired, but the report marks the first time that officials have explained that he was fired at a disciplinary meeting convened on February 15 because of his refusal to wear dresses. safety glasses. It also details the events that immediately preceded the shooting, including the fact that Martin could be seen "heading to his workstation to retrieve something", pulling a hoodie and going to the bathroom just before the shooting. meeting.

The report detailing the shootings shows that after Clayton Parks, the company's human resources manager, had told Martin that he had been fired, Martin had profaned blasphemies before he started firing. Parks was among those killed.

The reports also report the intervention of the police. The police were dispatched to the scene at 1:24 pm, and five minutes were shot inside and outside the building. to be fatally shot by law enforcement.

It also includes an autopsy that revealed that Martin had been hit six times, including one in the center of the forehead.

The report concludes that the officers who shot Martin were justified in using deadly force.