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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
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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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