Hartford Distributors shooting | |
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Location | Manchester, Connecticut, US |
Coordinates | 41°47′52″N 72°34′12″W / 41.7979°N 72.5701°W |
Date | August 3, 2010 |
Attack type | Mass shooting, murder–suicide, workplace shooting |
Weapons | Ruger SR9 semi-automatic pistol |
Deaths | 9 (including the perpetrator) |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | Omar Thornton |
Motive | Employee disgruntled over getting fired; alleged racial prejudice |
The Hartford Distributors shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on August 3, 2010, in Manchester, Connecticut, United States. The location of the crime was a warehouse owned by Hartford Distributors, a beer distribution company. The gunman, former employee Omar Sheriff Thornton (born April 25, 1976)[1] shot and killed eight male coworkers before turning a gun on himself.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][excessive citations]