An employee of Stobart Canned Foods, Inc. has apparently gone on a shooting rampage inside the companies North Katchawatchi plant. Officials say that 47 year old employee Earl Perry Jr. arrived at work Thursday morning armed with a tranquilizer gun and began firing darts indiscriminately at coworkers. By the time the shooting finally stopped at 9:45 AM EST, seventeen employees of the North Katchawatchi plant were in a deep sleep and thirteen more in a groggy stupor. Employee and witness Evelyn Schutzer described the scene . "he just burst through the door like he was all agitated and began shootin'. He was mumblin' somethin' bout free trade and his bowlin' shoes not fittin' too good. Tactical units of the Sakawah County SWAT sealed off the plant by 10:00 and entered the facility 10:05. Seargent Matt Comisky was one of the first to enter the plant.
"Most of the victims were found in the companies' cafeteria, having breakfast I suppose, It was a terrible sight, bodies laying everywhere, drool, some still in their seats, all snoring heavily. It's the worst incident of it's kind I've ever seen in my fourteen years in law enforcement".
Authorities eventually located Perry in a men's room stall where the gunman had barricaded himself. At 10:14 AM tactical units entered the men's room and found Perry snoring in a stall with an apparent self-inflicted tranquilizer dart in his foot. In his truck authorities recovered a one page manifesto railing against the Police (the band) , NAFTA, and microwave popcorn.
Sleep therapists and grief counselors are standing by to assist families of victims. Perry is to be arraigned on Monday morning.
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