Maryland woman kills three people and herself in warehouse gun rampage

By Gina Cherelus

 

Several people were shot on Thursday in Perryman, Maryland, near an Army facility, according to authorities. 

 

(Reuters) - A 26-year-old woman armed with a handgun opened fire on Thursday at a Maryland distribution centre for the Rite Aid drugstore chain, killing three people and wounding three others before taking her own life, the Harford County sheriff said.

 

The shooting unfolded shortly after the suspect, a temporary employee there, reported for work around 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) at the warehouse in Perryman, Maryland, about 34 miles (55 km) northeast of Baltimore, Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said at a news conference.

 

The sheriff's office identified the assailant in a tweet as Snochia Moseley from Baltimore County.

 

The sheriff said investigators have not yet determined a motive, but a law enforcement source told Reuters the shooting was believed to have been sparked by a work-related grievance.

 

The fact that the assailant was a woman was unusual given that the overwhelming majority of mass shootings in the United States are committed by men.

 

Gahler said Thursday's gun violence began outside the warehouse and then moved inside, but investigators were still piecing together the precise sequence of events.

 

He said a total of seven people were hit by gunfire and that four, including the woman who opened fire, were killed. The three others were expected to survive, according to the sheriff. He said the suspect shot herself in the head.

 

No shots were fired by any law enforcement officers, he said.

 

The Rite Aid centre, located among other warehouses in an industrial park, has nearly 1,000 employees, company spokesman Pete Strella said. The facility packages pharmaceuticals and other products for delivery to more than 2,500 stores.

 

Police spent several hours searching the 210,000-square-foot (19,510-square-metre) building for any possible additional victims, the sheriff's office said.

 

"Our prayers are with all those impacted, including our first responders," Governor Larry Hogan wrote on Twitter. "The State stands ready to offer any support."

 

Agents from the Baltimore offices of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI also responded, the agencies said.

 

The shooting occurred a day after a man shot and wounded four people, including a police officer, at a Pennsylvania court building before he was killed by police, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

 

(Reporting by Gina Cherelus in New York; additional reporting by Don Pessin in Washington, Mark Hosenball in London and Andrew Hay in New Mexico; writing and additional reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; editing by Jonathan Oatis and James Dalgleish)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-09-21

What's her skin color?

1 hour ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

What's her skin color?

I would not ask that question but her name is Snochia from Baltimore so you can probably guess.

2 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

I would not ask that question but her name is Snochia from Baltimore so you can probably guess.

Russian colour??

2 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

What's her skin color?

ironic?

3 minutes ago, sirmud63 said:

ironic?

Guns

50 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

I would not ask that question but her name is Snochia from Baltimore so you can probably guess.

A purple shade on perscription medicine is my guess.

34 minutes ago, sirmud63 said:

ironic?

Strange...I thought of something else!

3 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

What's her skin color?

How is that relevant?

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Our prayers are with all those impacted

Yeah thatll realy  help pal, better choice would be "thoughts"

3 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

What's her skin color?

I would imagine fairly bright red

Crazy Americans and the ever increasing mass shootings. As usual it will be a day or two of politicians spouting BS but nothing will change. The government doesn’t have the b***s to stand up to the NRA. 

 

This is being mis-reported as a mass shooting by a woman.  It is actually a mass shooting by a man who identified (dressed & acted as) a woman.

 

So there was already a certain amount of metal disorder, and I can imagine what might have lead to this incident, a katoey working in a warehouse 

in America. I would think that the good old boys would have found an easy target for their lunchroom comedy.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aegis/news/bs-md-moseley-20180920-story.html#

 

 

49 minutes ago, NoBrainer said:

This is being mis-reported as a mass shooting by a woman.  It is actually a mass shooting by a man who identified (dressed & acted as) a woman.

 

So there was already a certain amount of metal disorder, and I can imagine what might have lead to this incident, a katoey working in a warehouse 

in America. I would think that the good old boys would have found an easy target for their lunchroom comedy.

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aegis/news/bs-md-moseley-20180920-story.html#

 

 

 

 

Gender dysphoria coupled with being caught up "in the system", whereby fairly benign transgressions such as failing to register or insure your car can lead to rapidly escalating expenses, court appearances and even criminal charges for the working poor. Now four people are dead because the system broke a person whom by several accounts wasn't horrible but was perhaps not sufficiently equipped to deal with what "the system" might throw at her/him.