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<br />On August 30, 2007, at 7:50 a.m., Paulino Valenzuela, 44, armed with a handgun, began
<br />shooting in Co-op City's leasing office in the Bronx, New York. He had recently lost his
<br />job as ajanitor at Co-op City and had filed a lawsuit to get his job back. One person was
<br />killed; two were wounded. The shooter fled the scene and later surrendered to police and
<br />was taken into custody.
<br />On October 4, 2007, at 2:00 p.m., John Chester Ashley, 63, armed with a handgun, began
<br />shooting in the Giordano and Giordano law office in Alexandria, Louisiana. Two people were
<br />killed; three were wounded. The shooter was killed by police after a 10 -hour standoff.
<br />On October 7, 2007, at 2:45 a.m., Tyler Peterson, 20, a sheriff's deputy armed with a rifle,
<br />began shooting during a party at his ex -girlfriend's house in Crandon, Wisconsin. Six people
<br />were killed, including his ex-girlfriend; one was wounded. The shooter later committed sui-
<br />cide during an exchange of gunfire with police.
<br />On October 8, 2007, at 7:30 a.m., Robert Becerra, 29, armed with a handgun, began shooting
<br />at customers and employees of Am -Pao Tire Pros in Simi Valley, California. One person was
<br />killed; two were wounded. The shooter committed suicide before police arrived.
<br />On October 10, 2007, at 1:02 p.m., Asa Halley Coon, 14, armed with two handguns, began
<br />shooting in SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio. No one was killed; four were wound-
<br />ed. The shooter committed suicide before police arrived.
<br />On December 5, 2007, at 1:42 p.m., Robert Arthur Hawkins, 19, armed with a rifle, began
<br />shooting as he exited the elevator on the third floor of the Von Maur department store in the
<br />Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. Eight people were killed; four were wounded. The
<br />shooter committed suicide before police arrived.
<br />On December 9, 2007, at 12:29 a.m., Matthew John Murray, 24, armed with a rifle, two
<br />handguns, and smoke bombs, entered the Youth with a Mission Training Center in Arvada,
<br />Colorado, and began shooting. Two people were killed; two were wounded. He then walked
<br />seven miles overnight to the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and began
<br />shooting again. The shooter had been expelled from the training center three years prior to
<br />the incident. Two additional people were killed there; three more were wounded. The shooter
<br />committed suicide after being shot by church security. A total of four people were killed; five
<br />were wounded.
<br />On February 7, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., Charles Lee Thornton, 52, armed with two handguns,
<br />shot a police officer outside the Kirkwood City Hall in Kirkwood, Missouri. He then took the
<br />officer's gun and continued shooting inside the Kirkwood City Council chambers. Six people
<br />were killed, including two police officers; no one was wounded. The shooter was killed by
<br />responding officers who came from the police department across the street.
<br />Key
<br />-z Commerce
<br />M Education
<br />!: Government
<br />?s Open Space
<br />Ft Residences
<br />Health Care
<br />M House of We
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