Laid-Off Silicon Valley Worker Kills Three

[marmar]

via HuffPost:




AP: Laid-Off Silicon Valley Worker Kills Three
TERRY COLLINS | November 15, 2008 07:44 PM EST |



SANTA CLARA, Calif. — An engineer who police said fatally shot three former co-workers at a Silicon Valley high-tech company was arrested Saturday after a daylong manhunt.

Jing Hua Wu was arrested at an intersection in nearby Mountain View and booked into Santa Clara County Jail on three counts of murder, said Santa Clara Police Lt. Mike Sellers.

Wu was not armed when he was arrested, and officers did not find a gun in his vehicle, police said.

He had been missing since the shootings Friday afternoon at the offices of SiPort Inc., a 4-year-old company that develops digital radio semiconductors.

Police said Wu had been let go this week from his job as a product test engineer and that he appeared to have specifically targeted his three victims. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/15/laid-off-silicon-valley-w_n_144028.html

[Monk06]

1. So from now on instead of saying. "He went postal", we'll say, "He went digital."

[ileus]

2. naw he use good ole lead and powder, not a laser.