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Employee opens fire at FedEx sorting center

By Kate Brumback
Published April 29, 2014 10:52pm ET
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Employee opens fire at FedEx sorting center
FedEx Employee Lisa Aiken, wearing bandana, is embraced by a co-worker as other FedEx employees gather at a skating rink following a shooting at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Ga., on Tuesday, April 29, 2014. A shooter described as being armed with an assault rifle and having bullets strapped across his chest opened fire Tuesday morning at a FedEx station outside Atlanta, wounding at least six people before police found the suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. "He had bullets strapped across his chest like Rambo, a huge assault rifle and he had a knife," Aiken said. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Brant Sanderlin) | Brant Sanderlin

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before committing suicide, police and witnesses said.

In addition to a shotgun, the gunman also had an undisclosed number of Molotov cocktails, but he did not use them in the attack, police said.

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