Family: Racism caused Conn. gunman to snap

[Contrary1]

I did a search and didn't find that this had been posted. My apologies if it is a rerun.

"MANCHESTER, Connecticut — Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union representative and his supervisors as they showed a video of him stealing beer from the distributor where he worked.

Busted, he didn't put up a fight, company officials said. He quietly signed a letter of resignation and was headed for the door when he pulled out a gun and started firing — "cold as ice," as one survivor described it.

In the end, Thornton killed eight people, injured two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage Tuesday at Hartford Distributors that union and company officials said they would not have anticipated from someone with no history of complaints or disciplinary problems.

Yet relatives say Thornton, 34, finally cracked after suffering racial harassment in a company where he said he was singled out for being black in a predominantly white work force..."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38554795/ns/us_news/

[maxsolomon]

1. what made him steal the beer?

thirst knows no color.

BTW, he used 2 handguns that were legally registered.

[LostinVA]

2. It's in LBN -- a long thread

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Not sure I'm buying this.