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Motive elusive in UPS shooting; witness says gunman said nothing
Motive elusive in UPS shooting; witness says gunman said nothing A UPS worker’s deadly rampage in San Francisco began when he walked into a company building, stepped through a crowd of fellow delivery drivers and, without warning or a single word, shot one of them execution-style in the head, a witness said Thursday. After Jimmy Chanh Lam fatally shot Benson Louie, he continued firing as his shocked co-workers dived for cover. Within minutes, Lam, 38, killed two more drivers and wounded another two Wednesday morning before he turned the gun on himself as police descended on the company distribution center. “It was a horrible, horrible scene, and I was front and center,” Leopold Parker, a 53-year-old senior driver with the United Parcel Service, said in a telephone interview. Parker doesn’t know why Lam first shot Louie, a 50-year-old San Francisco resident and volleyball enthusiast with a wife and two daughters. In the weeks before the shooting, Lam seemed especially isolated and depressed, 56-year-old Shaun Vu said in a phone interview from New Orleans, where he was vacationing. “Jimmy had a problem with alcohol,” said Vu, who as the most senior driver in UPS’ Sunset office became a confidant to Lam and other drivers in that area. Parker then returned to the third floor of the Potrero Hill warehouse, where other drivers were punching in and holding the usual “Wellness Wednesday” meeting and breakfast. Two other wounded drivers, identified in a UPS email as Xiao Chen and Edgar Perez, were treated for gunshot wounds at San Francisco General Hospital and released. After speaking with grief counselors and his fellow drivers, Parker said he had pieced together Lam’s final moments after he shot Louie. Lam started as a UPS driver in San Francisco in 1999 and never complained about his fellow workers, said Joseph Cilia, the secretary-treasurer for Teamsters Local 2785, the drivers union. [...] despite working as a UPS driver for almost two decades, his driving record was peppered with crashes and allegations of drunkenness — incidents that all happened outside work, in his personal vehicle, records show. In 2010, he was convicted of driving under the influence and placed on probation after San Francisco police said he crashed into parked vehicles after drinking heavily at a bar. Three years later, city prosecutors filed a motion to revoke his probation when he was arrested again for driving under the influence. [...] in April 2014, his license was suspended for a year after he was deemed a “negligent operator,” state records show.
Motive elusive in UPS shooting; witness says gunman said nothing A UPS worker’s deadly rampage in San Francisco began when he walked into a company building, stepped through a crowd of fellow delivery drivers and, without warning or a single word, shot one of them execution-style in the head, a witness said Thursday. After Jimmy Chanh Lam fatally shot Benson Louie, he continued firing as his shocked co-workers dived for cover. Within minutes, Lam, 38, killed two more drivers and wounded another two Wednesday morning before he turned the gun on himself as police descended on the company distribution center. “It was a horrible, horrible scene, and I was front and center,” Leopold Parker, a 53-year-old senior driver with the United Parcel Service, said in a telephone interview. Parker doesn’t know why Lam first shot Louie, a 50-year-old San Francisco resident and volleyball enthusiast with a wife and two daughters. In the weeks before the shooting, Lam seemed especially isolated and depressed, 56-year-old Shaun Vu said in a phone interview from New Orleans, where he was vacationing. “Jimmy had a problem with alcohol,” said Vu, who as the most senior driver in UPS’ Sunset office became a confidant to Lam and other drivers in that area. Parker then returned to the third floor of the Potrero Hill warehouse, where other drivers were punching in and holding the usual “Wellness Wednesday” meeting and breakfast. Two other wounded drivers, identified in a UPS email as Xiao Chen and Edgar Perez, were treated for gunshot wounds at San Francisco General Hospital and released. After speaking with grief counselors and his fellow drivers, Parker said he had pieced together Lam’s final moments after he shot Louie. Lam started as a UPS driver in San Francisco in 1999 and never complained about his fellow workers, said Joseph Cilia, the secretary-treasurer for Teamsters Local 2785, the drivers union. [...] despite working as a UPS driver for almost two decades, his driving record was peppered with crashes and allegations of drunkenness — incidents that all happened outside work, in his personal vehicle, records show. In 2010, he was convicted of driving under the influence and placed on probation after San Francisco police said he crashed into parked vehicles after drinking heavily at a bar. Three years later, city prosecutors filed a motion to revoke his probation when he was arrested again for driving under the influence. [...] in April 2014, his license was suspended for a year after he was deemed a “negligent operator,” state records show.
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- Jun 18, 2017