A DISGRUNTLED FORMER
EMPLOYEE LOOKING FOR REVENGE.
FIRED AND WANTING SOMEBODY TO
PAY.
ARMED AND ON A MISSION.
HIS DEMEANOR CHILLING.
HE CONTINUED THROUGH THE
BUILDING LIKE HE WAS LOOKING FOR
SOMEBODY.
THAT SOMEBODY, A SUPERVISOR
SHOT AND KILLED IN COLD BLOOD ON
THE JOB.
THAT MAN WAS ARMED WITH A PISTOL
AND A SHOTGUN WHEN HE WALKED
INTO KNIGHT TRANSPORTATION NEAR
KATY THIS MORNING.
IT WAS A CHAOTIC SCENE WHICH
BEGAN WITH A CONFRONTATION, THEN
THE SHOOTING STARTED.
THAT GUNMAN HAD BEEN FIRED FROM
HIS JOB TWO WEEKS AGO.
THEN HE HUNTED DOWN AND KILLED A
SUPERVISOR.
THEN TURNED THE GUN ON HIMSELF.
TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE
SLIGHTLY WOUNDED BY SHRAPNEL
FROM THE SHOTGUN BLAST.
PHIL ARCHER IS LIVE AT THE
SCENE WHERE WE'RE STILL WAITING
TO LEARN THE SHOOTER'S IDENTITY.
PHIL?
Reporter: COUNTY DETECTIVES
ARE STILL WITHHOLDING THE NAME
OF THE SUSPECT IN THIS CASE.
BUT WE DO KNOW NOW THE NAME OF
THE MAN HE KILLED HERE THIS
MORNING.
AROUND 8:30 THIS MORNING, THE
GUNMAN WALKED INTO THE BUILDING
ARMED WITH A SHOTGUN AND A
PISTOL.
THE SHOOTER WAS TERMINATED A
COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND
APPARENTLY BECAME DISGRUNTLED
BECAUSE HIS PAYMENTS HAD CEASED
AFTER THAT PERIOD OF
TERMINATION.
Reporter: ACCORDING TO
DEPUTIES, HE WENT INTO A BREAK
ROOM, FIRED THE SHOTGUN AND
SAID, QUOTE, Y'ALL RUINED MY
LIFE.
THEN HE BEGAN MOVING THROUGH THE
BUILDING.
BUT HE ALLOWED SOME EMPLOYEES TO
PASS UNMOLESTED.
ONE INDIVIDUAL I SPOKE WITH,
HE DID PASS HIM AND CONTINUED
THROUGH THE BUILDING AS THOUGH
HE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY IN
PARTICULAR.
Reporter: IT APPEARS THAT
PERSON WAS 35-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL
DAWOOD, A COMPANY SUPERVISOR.
ANOTHER EMPLOYEE HEARD DAWOOD
TALKING WITH THE GUNMAN, URGING
HIM TO PUT DOWN THE GUN AND
LEAVE.
INSTEAD, THE MAN TURNED THE GUN
ON DAWOOD AND THEN KILLED
HIMSELF.
AT LEAST A DOZEN OTHER EMPLOYEES
WERE HIDING FOR FEAR THEY MIGHT
BE NEXT.
REVEREND BALLARD LATER TALKED
WITH THEM.
SOME SAID THAT THEY WERE AS
CLOSE TO THE SHOOTING TO HAVE
GRAZES OF BULLETS AND OTHERS
GLASS THAT THEY WERE DODGING AND
TRYING TO FIND A SAFE PLACE
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER
OR NOT THEY WOULD BE THE VICTIM
OF THIS RANDOM SHOOTING.
Reporter: ACROSS THE STREET,
MORTON RANCH HIGH SCHOOL WAS
LOCKED DOWN FOR A WHILE, ALONG
WITH AT LEAST TWO OTHER NEARBY
SCHOOLS.
DEPUTIES SAY STUDENTS WERE NEVER
IN DANGER.
THE TWO EMPLOYEES WHO WERE
WOUNDED BY SHRAPNEL WERE TREATED
BY MEDICS AT THE SCENE AND
RELEASED.
THIS AFTERNOON THE COMPANY SENT
OUT A MESSAGE TO EMPLOYEES
SAYING GRIEF COUNSELORS WILL BE
MADE AVAILABLE AND ALL WORK AT
THE FACILITY IS SUSPENDED UNTIL
FURTHER NOTICE.
REPORTING LIVE IN KATY, PHIL
ARCHER, KPRC CHANNEL 2 NEWS.
A CHAOTIC SCENE AS YOU CAN
IMAGINE, WHICH THEN EXTENDED
INTO THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD.
OUR TEAM COVERAGE CONTINUES
NOW WITH RYAN KORSGARD.
RYAN, THERE ARE HOMES AND
SCHOOLS IN THAT AREA.
Reporter: YOU CAN IMAGINE
IT'S BEEN A TOUGH DAY FOR
EVERYBODY WHO LIVES IN THIS
NEIGHBORHOOD OR GOES TO SCHOOL
HERE.
AN IMPOSSIBLE DAY FOR THEE
FAMILIES.
WITHIN MINUTES OF GETTING A CALL
THAT SHOTS WERE FIRED AT KNIGHT
TRANSPORTATION, DEPUTIES,
CONSTABLES FROM PRECINCT 5 AND
KATY ISD POLICE SWARMED THE
NEIGHBORHOOD.
FAMILIES WHO LIVE IN THE AREA
HAD NO CLUE WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
STUDENTS ACROSS THE STREET HAD
JUST GOTTEN TO CLASS.
WE SEE THESE COPS, ABOUT 20
CARS AND RUNNING AROUND THE
BUILDING.
THEN WE ALSO SAW THE SWAT TEAM
HEADING INSIDE THE BUILDING.
SO WE KNEW IT WAS SERIOUS.
Reporter: SOON WE ALL KNEW
JUST HOW SERIOUS.
ONE EMPLOYEE INSIDE THE
TRANSPORTATION COMPANY WAS DEAD.
TWO PEOPLE WERE HURT.
THAT INCLUDES A MAN WHO WAS
TREATED AND RELEASED FROM THE
HOSPITAL.
HE LATER RETURNED TO THE OFFICE.
THIS RESTAURANT AT I-10 AND PIN
OAK NEAR THE HOME OF ONE OF THE
INJURED WORKERS.
IT'S VERY SAD OCCURRENCE THAT
SOMETHING LIKE THAT, PEOPLE ARE
EVEN LIKE THAT.
Reporter: BACK LIVE, THE
CRIME SCENE TAPE DOWN.
DEPUTIES JUST WRAPPED UP THEIR
WORK AND LEFT.