Chief: City employee targeted co-worker in deadly shooting

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By the Associated Press A deadly shooting at a city building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was an act of “workplace violence' by one city employee who targeted a co-worker he'd disliked for a long time, police

A deadly shooting at a city building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was an act of “workplace violence” by one city employee who targeted a co-worker he’d disliked for a long time, police said Friday.

Tollie said the two men had been involved in a physical altercation Thursday that wasn’t reported at the time to their superiors. Another city employee who was wounded wasn’t targeted and was “collateral damage,” Tollie said. Tollie said the gunman brought multiple firearms to the shooting Friday. Black ran back to his car and said others did the same and drove off. He said he just stood back and watched until police arrived.

Police Sgt. Cameron Stewart Sloane was hit twice by gunfire and taken to a hospital where he underwent surgery, she said. He’s expected to survive.She also decried what she said is the challenge for her department and others around the country — gun violence. “Some of those guys been knowing each other for years. They took it pretty hard,” Black said. “Everybody was affected.At Cobb’s home on the north side of Winston-Salem, his mother-in-law, Kathy Forte, said the timing of the shooting before Christmas and just after a family birthday party made it especially devastating.

 

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