SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A 48-year-old man suspected in the fatal shooting of two co-workers and the critical wounding of another at a Springfield, Illinois, warehouse died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the city’s police chief said Friday.
Michael L. Collins of Springfield, two other men and a woman all arrived for work about 7 a.m. Friday in the welding area of the Bunn-O-Matic facility, Springfield Chief Kenny Winslow said during a news conference.
The shooting happened shortly after 11 a.m., police said.
The sheriff of nearby Morgan County called the chief’s office later in the day to say the suspect’s body had been found in his car, a victim of a gunshot wound, Winslow said.
The bodies of the two employees were found by police officers searching the building. The female employee was found injured in the parking lot and was rushed to a hospital, he said.
Winslow said one of the men who died was in his 60s, one was in his 20s and the woman who was critically injured is in her 50s. Investigators were seeking a motive behind the shootings.
Bunn-O-Matic manufactures dispensed beverage equipment, and is headquartered in Springfield, according to the company’s website.
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