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Just when you think things are bad enough in California with all the gun laws we have now, here comes another nutcase to make it worse.
Why cant these creeps use something other then a gun
??
Just ranting......
>3 killed in rampage: Nevada County building, nearby restaurant hit; suspect arrested
>
>By M.S. Enkoji, Pamela Martineau and Blair Anthony Robertson
>
>Bee Staff Writers
>
>(Published Jan. 11, 2001)
>
>NEVADA CITY -- A man accused of opening fire at a county mental health center and
>nearby restaurant, killing three people and injuring three others, surrendered late
>Wednesday after a two-hour standoff with sheriff's deputies.
>
>The suspect, Scott Harlan Thorpe, 40, was arrested at his Smartville home on Mooney
>Flat Road about 9 p.m., after investigators received a tip from his brother, Kent
>Thorpe, a Sacramento police officer, said Nevada County Sheriff Keith Royal.
>
>Scott Thorpe, who has had no apparent problems with Nevada County deputies who
>searched records for the past decade, was being held in the Nevada County Jail. He
>will be arraigned today. Kent Thorpe could not be reached for comment late Wednesday.
>
>The shooting erupted just before 11:30 a.m. inside the county mental health building
>in Nevada City. Thorpe reportedly was upset with the mental health staff, Royal said.
>
>Laura Wilcox, a 19-year-old county health tech worker, and caregiver Pearlie Mae
>Feldman, 68, were struck by gunfire and killed inside the Nevada County mental health
>office.
>
>A supervising health technician, Judith Edzards, 49, was shot and in critical
>condition at Sutter Roseville Medical Center. Another employee, Daizy Switzer, 35,
>was injured when she jumped from a window and broke her leg. Her condition was
>unavailable.
>
>"Nevada County is in grief today," said county Supervisor Elizabeth Martin. "This
>kind of incident underscores how difficult this kind of work can be.
>
>"We live in a quiet, peaceful community, where we resolve our issues feistily,
>certainly not violently."
>
>The suspect had made accusations about being poisoned by the Lyon's restaurant on Old
>Nevada City Highway, between Nevada City and Grass Valley, Royal said.
>
>Gunfire erupted there minutes after the shootings at the mental health building.
>Killed was Mark Markle, 24, a manager with two young children. He had just
>transferred last Friday as a temporary manager from a sister eatery in Yuba City,
>said his mother, Margaret Markle of Marysville. Richard Senuty, 34, a cook, was
>wounded and in stable condition after surgery.
>
>Markle was a tireless worker who wanted to one day run his own Lyon's restaurant,
>said his mother. "He was a wonderful young man, hard worker, good father. He really
>loved the restaurant business."
>
>After the shootings, deputies closed off the county's other main building to the
>public. Schools throughout the county were also closed as frantic parents descended
>on campuses to pick up their children.
>
>During a dreary downpour, a man armed with a handgun entered the lobby of the
>county's mental health division and shot two employees in the head through a
>glassed-in reception area, said county Supervisor Barbara Green. One was killed and
>the other was seriously wounded.
>
>The gunman then shot and killed the other employee waiting in the lobby of the
>building where about 100 employees work. A fourth person, Switzer, was injured while
>jumping through a window to escape.
>
>A few minutes later, the same man entered the Lyon's restaurant about three miles
>away near Grass Valley and asked for the manager, authorities said. He shot and
>killed Markle, the manager on duty, then shot and wounded the cook.
>
>The restaurant is in a cluster of businesses where lunch-hour shoppers flocked for
>groceries, video rentals and hardware just outside Grass Valley on Old Nevada City
>Highway.
>
>When five or six shots rang out, Perry Paton, a service manager at Sierra Motor
>Sports, said he was in the garage's service bay behind the restaurant.
>
>"They sounded like they were right outside. I went out the door and looked and that's
>when I saw someone lying on the ground," Paton said.
>
>He saw a blue vehicle speed away from the back of the restaurant, then cross the
>street into an Albertson's parking lot.
>
>"I didn't get a look at the driver at all," Paton said.
>
>A hostess at the restaurant screamed for someone to call 911, said Jerry Bradley, a
>parts manager at Sierra Motor. "It all happened pretty quick," he said.
>
>Sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers arrived just after the
>shooting began, swarming into nearby businesses in search of the shooter.
>
>Ted Christensen was coming in to work at the Video Library across the street from the
>restaurant when he saw the commotion.
>
>"People were running across the street, ducking and looking back, and some were
>hiding behind cars, about 20 to 30 people," he said.
>
>He locked the store for half an hour while some of the Lyon's customers took refuge
>inside, he said.
>
>"It's pretty tense," he said. "This never happens in our town."
>
>The shooting rampage had clearly shattered the sensibilities of bucolic Gold Country
>communities, known for quaint, historic villages and low-key living seldom marred by
>violence.
>
>A handwritten sign on the door of Indian Springs Vineyards, where customers usually
>sip and sample wine in downtown Nevada City, said, "Closed for personal safety."
>
>At Broad Street Books, 16-year-old Ana Alton came to work after Nevada Union High
>School had closed.
>
>"It's really scary, and it's really surreal ... but it's not like I never thought it
>can happen. I don't think we're a secluded town."
>
>Martin, who was at the county supervisors' offices across town from where the
>shooting occurred, said the moment she could leave she called her husband and said:
>"I'm alive."
>
>Officials in the county, where there were five killings last year, plan a meeting for
>employees this morning. Mental health services include an outpatient clinic and
>counseling services, said Pat Ward, an analyst for the county Board of Supervisors.
>The building will be closed.
>
>Unlike urban centers, where similar services are dispensed from behind bulletproof
>glass, the county has preferred a less guarded style.
>
>"We don't run America as a lock-down society. There was no reason to have thought
>this could have happened here," said Ted Gaebler, the county's administrative
>officer. "We Americans choose not to run our society through locked doors and
>bulletproof windows."
>
>Bee staff writers Ralph Montaño and Ed Fletcher and Bee correspondents Barbara Barte
>Osborn and Tom Nadeau contributed to this report.
>
>
>
Just when you think things are bad enough in California with all the gun laws we have now, here comes another nutcase to make it worse.
Why cant these creeps use something other then a gun
??Just ranting......
>3 killed in rampage: Nevada County building, nearby restaurant hit; suspect arrested
>
>By M.S. Enkoji, Pamela Martineau and Blair Anthony Robertson
>
>Bee Staff Writers
>
>(Published Jan. 11, 2001)
>
>NEVADA CITY -- A man accused of opening fire at a county mental health center and
>nearby restaurant, killing three people and injuring three others, surrendered late
>Wednesday after a two-hour standoff with sheriff's deputies.
>
>The suspect, Scott Harlan Thorpe, 40, was arrested at his Smartville home on Mooney
>Flat Road about 9 p.m., after investigators received a tip from his brother, Kent
>Thorpe, a Sacramento police officer, said Nevada County Sheriff Keith Royal.
>
>Scott Thorpe, who has had no apparent problems with Nevada County deputies who
>searched records for the past decade, was being held in the Nevada County Jail. He
>will be arraigned today. Kent Thorpe could not be reached for comment late Wednesday.
>
>The shooting erupted just before 11:30 a.m. inside the county mental health building
>in Nevada City. Thorpe reportedly was upset with the mental health staff, Royal said.
>
>Laura Wilcox, a 19-year-old county health tech worker, and caregiver Pearlie Mae
>Feldman, 68, were struck by gunfire and killed inside the Nevada County mental health
>office.
>
>A supervising health technician, Judith Edzards, 49, was shot and in critical
>condition at Sutter Roseville Medical Center. Another employee, Daizy Switzer, 35,
>was injured when she jumped from a window and broke her leg. Her condition was
>unavailable.
>
>"Nevada County is in grief today," said county Supervisor Elizabeth Martin. "This
>kind of incident underscores how difficult this kind of work can be.
>
>"We live in a quiet, peaceful community, where we resolve our issues feistily,
>certainly not violently."
>
>The suspect had made accusations about being poisoned by the Lyon's restaurant on Old
>Nevada City Highway, between Nevada City and Grass Valley, Royal said.
>
>Gunfire erupted there minutes after the shootings at the mental health building.
>Killed was Mark Markle, 24, a manager with two young children. He had just
>transferred last Friday as a temporary manager from a sister eatery in Yuba City,
>said his mother, Margaret Markle of Marysville. Richard Senuty, 34, a cook, was
>wounded and in stable condition after surgery.
>
>Markle was a tireless worker who wanted to one day run his own Lyon's restaurant,
>said his mother. "He was a wonderful young man, hard worker, good father. He really
>loved the restaurant business."
>
>After the shootings, deputies closed off the county's other main building to the
>public. Schools throughout the county were also closed as frantic parents descended
>on campuses to pick up their children.
>
>During a dreary downpour, a man armed with a handgun entered the lobby of the
>county's mental health division and shot two employees in the head through a
>glassed-in reception area, said county Supervisor Barbara Green. One was killed and
>the other was seriously wounded.
>
>The gunman then shot and killed the other employee waiting in the lobby of the
>building where about 100 employees work. A fourth person, Switzer, was injured while
>jumping through a window to escape.
>
>A few minutes later, the same man entered the Lyon's restaurant about three miles
>away near Grass Valley and asked for the manager, authorities said. He shot and
>killed Markle, the manager on duty, then shot and wounded the cook.
>
>The restaurant is in a cluster of businesses where lunch-hour shoppers flocked for
>groceries, video rentals and hardware just outside Grass Valley on Old Nevada City
>Highway.
>
>When five or six shots rang out, Perry Paton, a service manager at Sierra Motor
>Sports, said he was in the garage's service bay behind the restaurant.
>
>"They sounded like they were right outside. I went out the door and looked and that's
>when I saw someone lying on the ground," Paton said.
>
>He saw a blue vehicle speed away from the back of the restaurant, then cross the
>street into an Albertson's parking lot.
>
>"I didn't get a look at the driver at all," Paton said.
>
>A hostess at the restaurant screamed for someone to call 911, said Jerry Bradley, a
>parts manager at Sierra Motor. "It all happened pretty quick," he said.
>
>Sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers arrived just after the
>shooting began, swarming into nearby businesses in search of the shooter.
>
>Ted Christensen was coming in to work at the Video Library across the street from the
>restaurant when he saw the commotion.
>
>"People were running across the street, ducking and looking back, and some were
>hiding behind cars, about 20 to 30 people," he said.
>
>He locked the store for half an hour while some of the Lyon's customers took refuge
>inside, he said.
>
>"It's pretty tense," he said. "This never happens in our town."
>
>The shooting rampage had clearly shattered the sensibilities of bucolic Gold Country
>communities, known for quaint, historic villages and low-key living seldom marred by
>violence.
>
>A handwritten sign on the door of Indian Springs Vineyards, where customers usually
>sip and sample wine in downtown Nevada City, said, "Closed for personal safety."
>
>At Broad Street Books, 16-year-old Ana Alton came to work after Nevada Union High
>School had closed.
>
>"It's really scary, and it's really surreal ... but it's not like I never thought it
>can happen. I don't think we're a secluded town."
>
>Martin, who was at the county supervisors' offices across town from where the
>shooting occurred, said the moment she could leave she called her husband and said:
>"I'm alive."
>
>Officials in the county, where there were five killings last year, plan a meeting for
>employees this morning. Mental health services include an outpatient clinic and
>counseling services, said Pat Ward, an analyst for the county Board of Supervisors.
>The building will be closed.
>
>Unlike urban centers, where similar services are dispensed from behind bulletproof
>glass, the county has preferred a less guarded style.
>
>"We don't run America as a lock-down society. There was no reason to have thought
>this could have happened here," said Ted Gaebler, the county's administrative
>officer. "We Americans choose not to run our society through locked doors and
>bulletproof windows."
>
>Bee staff writers Ralph Montaño and Ed Fletcher and Bee correspondents Barbara Barte
>Osborn and Tom Nadeau contributed to this report.
>
>
>