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California Ford Dealership Shooting Leaves 3 Dead, Including Gunman, Police Say

Police did not immediately identify the shooter or the victims.
Nic Coury and Robert Jablon

MORGAN HILL, Calif. (AP) — A man who had just been fired from a Northern California Ford dealership shot and killed two employees and then killed himself Tuesday evening, police and witnesses said.

Police called to the Ford Store Morgan Hill found a man shot dead of an apparently self-inflicted wound on the ground outside some service bays.

“In his hand was a firearm, a handgun,” police Sgt. Bill Norman said at a news conference in Morgan Hill, southeast of San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Police investigate at the scene of a shooting at the Morgan Hill Ford Store in Morgan Hill, Calif., on Tuesday.
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Employees directed officers inside a building where they found two other men who had been shot and killed at the scene.

Police did not immediately identify the gunman or the victims.

A parts department worker, Doug MacGlashan, told KRON-TV that the killer was a former employee.

The service and parts director “had just fired a parts rep that he had said he was going to fire earlier in the day. And I guess the parts rep went outside, got a gun, went into the service and parts director’s office and shot him,” MacGlashan said.

The man also killed the parts manager, he said. 

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A man who had just been fired from the dealership shot and killed two employees and then killed himself, police and witnesses said.
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Video and photos showed police cars from several agencies swarming the dealership and employees embracing as they left the property.

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Mass Shooting Incidents In Last 20 Years
August 5, 2012 - UNITED STATES (01 of23)
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Caption: People watch police personnel outside the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a shooting took place Sunday, Aug 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps) (credit:AP)
July 20, 2012 - UNITED STATES(02 of23)
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April 2, 2012 - UNITED STATES(03 of23)
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A gunman, identified by police as Korean-American One Goh, kills seven people and wounds three others in a shooting rampage at a Christian college in Oakland. The former nursing student pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder charges.
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February 27, 2012 - UNITED STATES(04 of23)
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A student opens fire in a cafeteria at Chardon High School in Ohio, killing three students and injuring two others before being arrested.
Caption: In this Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, photo, seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane is led from Juvenile Court by Sheriff's deputies in Chardon, Ohio, after his arraignment in the shooting of five high school students. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) (credit:AP)
December 13, 2011 - BELGIUM(05 of23)
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Caption: People mourn at Place Saint Lambert on December 14, 2011, in Liege, Belgium. (Christophe Licoppe/Photonews via Getty Images) (credit:Christophe Licoppe/Photonews via Getty Images)
July 22, 2011 - NORWAY(06 of23)
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Caption: In this July 25, 2011, file photo, Norway's twin terror attacks suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, left, sits in an armored police vehicle. (AP Photo/Aftenposten/Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen) (credit:AP)
April 9, 2011 - NETHERLANDS(07 of23)
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Tristan van der Vlis opened fire in the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six before turning the gun on himself.
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January 8, 2011 - UNITED STATES(08 of23)
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June 2, 2010 - BRITAIN(09 of23)
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Gunman Derrick Bird opens fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria. Twelve people are killed and 11 injured. Bird also killed himself.
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March 11, 2009 - GERMANY (10 of23)
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A 17-year-old gunman dressed in combat gear kills nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart. He also kills one other person at a nearby clinic. He was later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two additional passers-by were killed and two policemen seriously injured, bringing the death toll to 16, including the gunman.
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September 23, 2008 - FINLAND(11 of23)
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Student Matti Saari opens fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland, killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
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November 7, 2007 - FINLAND(12 of23)
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Pekka-Eric Auvinen kills six fellow students, the school nurse, the principal and himself with a handgun at the Jokela High School near Helsinki.
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October 7, 2007 - UNITED STATES(13 of23)
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Six people are killed and one wounded when Sheriff's Department Deputy Tyler James Peterson goes on a shooting rampage at his ex-girlfriend's apartment, in Crandon, Wisconsin. Peterson, 20, then shot and killed himself.
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April 16, 2007 - UNITED STATES(14 of23)
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Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, becomes site of the deadliest rampage in U.S. history when a gunman kills 32 people and himself.
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March 12, 2005 - UNITED STATES (15 of23)
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Seven people are killed and four wounded when Terry Michael Ratzmann opens fire at a Living Church of God service at the Sheraton Hotel in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Ratzmann, a 44-year-old computer technician, the commits suicide.
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November 21, 2004 - UNITED STATES(16 of23)
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Six people are killed when Chai Soua Vang, a 35-year-old Hmong immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen, shoots eight people while deer hunting east of Birchwood in northern Wisconsin. A truck driver from St. Paul, Minn., Vang is sentenced to six consecutive life terms in prison.
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October 2002 - UNITED STATES(17 of23)
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April 26, 2002 - GERMANY(18 of23)
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In Erfurt, eastern Germany, 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opens fire after saying he was not going to take a math test. He kills 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
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June 2001 - NEPAL(19 of23)
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Eight members of the Nepalese Royal family are killed in a palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra who later turns a gun on himself and dies few days later. His youngest brother also died later, raising the death toll to 10.
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July 1999 - UNITED STATES(20 of23)
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A gunman kills nine people at two brokerages in Atlanta, after apparently killing his wife and two children. He commits suicide five hours later.
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April 1999 - UNITED STATES(21 of23)
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Two heavily armed teenagers go on a rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Denver, shooting 13 students and staff before taking their own lives.
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April 28, 1996 - AUSTRALIA(22 of23)
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Martin Bryant unleashes modern Australia's worst mass murder when he shoots dead 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in the southern state of Tasmania.
Caption: Photo dated 29 April, 1996, showing the remains of the guesthouse in Hobart, from which a gunman, identified as Martin Bryant, killed 34 people and injured 19 others. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
March 13, 1996 - BRITAIN(23 of23)
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Gunman Thomas Hamilton bursts into a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shoots dead 16 children and their teacher before killing himself.
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