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by Sheila Lennon
'Bottom-up' journalism from the pros

Updated June 9
• Providence Journal story: Journal worker kills 2, injures 1
• Three Dead in R.I. Shooting Spree (AP) [New URL to replace yesterday's already rotted link]
• Three Dead After Shooting Rampage at Paper (Reuters)

June 8, 2002 • Last week's weblog

It is a sad day here at the Providence Journal.

Three dead after shootings at Providence Journal production plant

"PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Three co-workers were found dead and another was injured after a newspaper employee went on a rampage today at The Providence Journal's production plant and in nearby Warwick..."

The production plant on Kinsley Avenue, where the press is located, is about a mile from the downtown newsroom, and many of us downtown don't know those involved in the shootings.

Saturdays, only a handful of reporters and editors work. Security guards, posted at all exits, and Providence Police officers milling in the lobby nearly outnumber news staffers. The most senior editors are here in their Saturday clothes, and a platter of cold cuts and a tray of cookies have appeared to feed a staff that will see no breaks today.

Little is known yet. The alleged shooter had just been promoted, one reporter tells me, dashing the "disgruntled employee" theory.

It can't happen to us, here in this quiet place. But it has.

I'm so sorry for the people whose lives ended here today, and for those who loved them, whose lives have collapsed and whose pain has just begun.
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