US Postal Shooter May Also Have Killed Neighbour
Reuters
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Los Angeles (US):
A woman with a history of mental illness shot and killed an ex-neighbor before going on a rampage at a California mail facility where she once worked, raising the death toll to eight, police said on Wednesday.
Santa Barbara police said Jennifer Sanmarco, 44, traveled from her home in New Mexico to the Southern California town of Goleta on Monday and shot and killed a woman in an apartment complex they shared about two years ago.
Armed with a 9 mm pistol, she then drove to a nearby U.S. Postal Service sorting center where she worked three years ago and killed five people before turning the gun on herself.One person wounded in the attack died on Wednesday. All but one of the dead were women.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Anderson told a news conference that forensic evidence linked the two crime sites to Sanmarco.Postal service officials said Sanmarco retired from the Postal Service in 2003 because of psychological problems. Anderson added that she had been held for 72 hours in a Santa Barbara mental hospital in 2001.
Feb 02, 2006
Reuters
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Los Angeles (US):
A woman with a history of mental illness shot and killed an ex-neighbor before going on a rampage at a California mail facility where she once worked, raising the death toll to eight, police said on Wednesday.
Santa Barbara police said Jennifer Sanmarco, 44, traveled from her home in New Mexico to the Southern California town of Goleta on Monday and shot and killed a woman in an apartment complex they shared about two years ago.
Armed with a 9 mm pistol, she then drove to a nearby U.S. Postal Service sorting center where she worked three years ago and killed five people before turning the gun on herself.One person wounded in the attack died on Wednesday. All but one of the dead were women.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Anderson told a news conference that forensic evidence linked the two crime sites to Sanmarco.Postal service officials said Sanmarco retired from the Postal Service in 2003 because of psychological problems. Anderson added that she had been held for 72 hours in a Santa Barbara mental hospital in 2001.
Feb 02, 2006
