Number 9 Jesse J. Warren In the late 2000s, Jessie J. Warren
worked as a mechanic at a Penske truck rental and leasing business near the city of Kennesaw,
Georgia. He’d developed a reputation among his co-workers of being unsociable and unable to
focus on the job. Warren was ultimately let go. On January the 12th of 2010, in the afternoon,
Warren returned to the Penske office clad in camouflage and armed with a handgun. He
shot 4 coworkers and a customer. Only one of the victims survived. Warren then fled the scene in a
Chevrolet S-10 truck, but was arrested less than a mile from the scene of the crime. Warren was
deemed incapable to stand trial and, in 2017, was indefinitely committed to a mental institution.
Number 8 Verlin Spencer In the late 1930s,
Verlin Spencer was the principal of the South Pasadena Junior High School. By 1939,
Spencer’s critical and perfectionist style had caused friction with the school’s staff.
Superintendent George C. Bush eventually placed the principal on an involuntary leave of absence.
Spencer’s abrasive behavior worsened upon his return to the school and he was eventually fired
on April the 30th of 1940. The man didn’t accept his termination and demanded a hearing, which was
set for May the 6th. On that date, Spencer arrived at the administrative office where the meeting was
held, armed with his .22 caliber Colt Woodsman handgun and 50 rounds of ammunition. He fatally
shot Superintendent Bush as well as the principal of the South Pasadena High School and the school
district’s business manager. He then drove a few blocks to the junior high school and gunned down
two teachers who he thought had plotted against him. As Spencer was cornered in the cafeteria,
he tried to take his own life by shooting himself in the abdomen. He survived his injuries
and subsequently pled guilty to all charges. Spencer was paroled in 1977, at the age of
75, and lived out the rest of his days helping to rehabilitate former convicts, in Hawaii.
Number 7 Jing Hua Wu On November the 14th of 2008,
one of the deadliest workplace killings in Silicon Valley history took place at the office of a
start-up company called SiPort. After he’d been fired from the company, a man named Jing Hua Wu
returned to the office, later that day, armed with a 9mm caliber handgun. The 47-year-old
then executed three of his former bosses, by shooting them in the head at point-blank range.
The victims were the vice-president of operations Brian Pugh, human resources manager Marilyn Lewis
and the company’s CEO Sid Agrawal. Wu was arrested shortly after the multiple shooting. During his
trail, he tried pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. As part of his defense, he claimed
that he’d been wrongfully terminated and that he had no recollection of the killing spree. Wu
was eventually found guilty on all charges and, in August of 2013, was sentenced to life in prison
plus 75 years, without the possibility of parole. Number 6 Vester Lee Flanagan
On August the 26th of 2015, two workers were shot and killed at the WDBJ television station in
Roanoke, Virginia. The perpetrator was 41-year-old Vester Lee Flanagan, known professionally as Bryce
Williams. Flanagan, a former reporter at the station, had been dismissed in 2013 for what was
deemed as “disruptive conduct”. At the time of the shooting, 24-year-old news reporter Alison Parker
and photojournalist Adam Ward, aged 27, were in a live morning interview with Vicki Gardner,
the executive director of the local chamber of commerce. Flanagan approached them, armed with
a Glock 19 handgun, and fired approximately 15 rounds. Parker and Ward died at the scene, from
critical gunshot injuries to the head and torso. Gardner was shot in the back but survived. She
later had surgery which involved the removal of part of her colon and her right kidney. As Ward’s
camera fell to the ground, it briefly captured the image of Flanagan with his weapon in hand.
He fled the scene and footage was transmitted to the sheriff’s office. A manhunt ensued,
in which the authorities located Flanagan by tracking his cellphone. A Virginia state trooper
identified the vehicle that the shooter had used in his escape. After a chase of less than 2 miles,
Flanagan crashed his car into an embankment. He was found with self-inflicted gunshot wounds,
to which he later succumbed in a local hospital. On his social media accounts,
Flanagan had reportedly accused Parker and Ward of discriminating against him for being a homosexual
black man. On the day of the shooting, he’d uploaded a 56-second cellphone video to his
Twitter, filmed from the first-person perspective, showing him as he opened fire on Parker.
Number 5 Franck Zoritch
In 1992, Franck Zoritch shot and killed 6 people at a factory in Besançon, France,
after being fired from his job. Zoritch had joined the army at 18 and was assigned to a parachute
artillery regiment. For several months, he was mostly given guard duty and equipment management.
It was reported that Zoritch was also being bullied. He eventually deserted and his contract
was subsequently terminated. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop his obsession with military conflicts,
particularly the Vietnam War. In 1989, he found a job at a precision tooling business, in Besançon.
A couple of years later, he was let go after a serious disagreement with one of his superiors.
Out of work, in financial debt and having recently broken up with his girlfriend, Zoritch began
drinking heavily. Then, on July the 1st of 1992, he walked into his former place of employment
while intoxicated and armed with a Colt AR-15 rifle as well as a .44 Magnum handgun. He started
shooting anyone he encountered inside. Because of the heavy machinery operating at the time,
the sound of gunfire was initially drowned out. 4 workers were killed at the scene while 2 others
succumbed to their injuries in the hospital. Zoritch then
took his own life. Number 4 Gary Martin
On February the 15th of 2019, Gary Martin, opened fire on his former co-workers at the Henry Pratt
Company, in Aurora, Illinois. It’s unclear whether Martin had been dismissed from his job
a few weeks prior or if his termination had occurred on the day of the shooting. He was
armed with a handgun that had a green laser sight attached to it. He shot and killed 5 male workers,
including the plant manager, an HR manager and a 21-year-old student on his first day as a human
resources intern. Martin then engaged responding police officers in a 90-minute shootout,
which led to 5 officers and a civilian being injured. The attacker was ultimately shot
and killed by law enforcement. Martin had a criminal record going back to the mid-1990’s
and had spent jail time in Mississippi for felony aggravated assault. He’d previously made threats
while working at the manufacturing plant, claiming he’d kill everyone inside if he ever got fired.
Number 3 Thomas McIlvane
While working at the post office, in Royal Oak, Michigan, Thomas McIlvane was suspended
for repeatedly getting into altercations with customers along his route. The 31-year-old was
known for having a short fuse and he would also get into fights with his superiors. A man who’d
previously served in the Marines with him reported that McIlvane had been dishonorably discharged
after using a tank to run over a car. Eventually, in 1991, he was fired from the Postal Service
for insubordination. McIlvane threatened violence if he wasn’t reinstated. On November the 15th, he
turned his threats into violent action and entered the office with a .22 caliber, sawed-off rifle.
McIlvane started shooting his former co-workers, killing 3 and injuring 6. Several others were hurt
after jumping from the windows of the two-story building where the killing spree took place. With
his murderous thirst for revenge satiated, the shooter turned the gun on himself. He was later
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comments section below Number 2 Leung Ying
On August the 22nd of 1928, Chinese worker Leung Ying killed 11 people on a farm in California.
Prior to the massacre, he’d been involved with gangs, as a gunman and narcotics peddler. He used
multiple aliases and, in 1924, had been arrested in San Francisco for criminal activity. In 1928,
Ying worked as a fruit picker at the Bryan ranch, about 5 miles from Fairfield, which was leased by
a man named Wong Gee. 29-year-old Ying was fired after a few months, when Gee found out he’d gotten
involved with his teenage daughter. Ying returned to the ranch, armed with a hatchet and a rifle.
In less than 20 minutes he killed or fatally wounded several workers as well as Gee,
his daughter, his brother and other members of his family. He mutilated Gee’s body and
afterwards fled in one of his automobiles. Ying was arrested by the police the next day and
subsequently confessed to what, at the time, had been the worst case of mass murder in California’s
history. He was sentenced to death but took his own life in his cell at San Quentin Prison,
a few weeks before his set execution date. Number 1 David Burke
On December the 7th of 1989, a disgruntled former employee of USAir hijacked a Pacific
Southwest Airlines flight, causing the death of 42 passengers. 35-year-old David Augustus Burke had
been dismissed from his job as a ticketing agent for petty theft. Burke had tried to get reinstated
but the meeting with his manager, Ray Thompson, was unsuccessful. Burke then boarded flight 1771,
from Los Angeles to San Francisco, a flight that Thompson was also on, as part of his daily
commute. Burke hadn’t surrendered his employee credentials, which is how he was able to sneak
a .44 Magnum revolver aboard the plane. Most of what followed was deduced from the cockpit
voice recorder. It’s believed that, after the plane had reached cruising altitude, Burke shot
Thompson dead. A flight attendant then opened the cockpit door, informing the pilots that there was
a problem. The gunman executed her, announcing “I am the problem”. Two more shots were heard, likely
indicating that Burke had either incapacitated or killed both pilots. The aircraft then pitched
down and accelerated. It crashed into the side of a rocky hill, in the Santa Lucia Mountains.
It disintegrated after impacting at about 770 mph, which is slightly faster than the speed of sound.
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