Police: Demoted worker shoots CEO, kills self in Chicago [View all]
Source: USA Today
Police: Demoted worker shoots CEO, kills self in Chicago
Aamer Madhani, 3:10 p.m. EDT July 31, 2014
CHICAGO – A workplace shooting rattled the city''s financial district Thursday when a newly demoted employee shot and critically wounded his company's CEO, then killed himself, police said.
Police responded to a call of shots fired on the 17th floor of a building located in the 200 block of S. LaSalle Ave., near the Willis Tower skyscraper, at about 9:50 a.m.
Upon reaching the scene, officers found two men, a 54-year-old-victim and a 59-year-old suspect, lying unresponsive on the floor of an office, both with gunshot wounds to the head. The offender was pronounced dead at the scene from a self- inflicted wound. The 54-year-old victim was transported to Northwestern Hospital in critical condition.
Police were investigating the case as a possible attempted murder-suicide.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the worker pulled a gun on the CEO and the two men struggled before the CEO was shot twice and the gunman fatally shot himself.
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