Workplace shooting in Ohio warehouse leaves 1 dead, 5 more wounded, suspect on loose, police say – CBS News

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Brian Dakss

Updated on: February 5, 2025 / 8:00 PM EST
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An employee of a warehouse in a Columbus, Ohio, suburb who police say shot one co-worker to death and wounded five others late Tuesday night has been taken into custody.Officials in New Albany, Ohio, said in a statement Wednesday that Bruce Reginald Foster III was taken into custody when police executed a search warrant at a Columbus home. No other details were immediately released.Police Chief Greg Jones told reporters in a news conference Wednesday morning that authorities didn’t know of a motive for the shooting and there were no reports of a confrontation or dispute that would have led to it. He said Foster had been at work “for some time” before the gunfire, adding that police were checking addresses associated with Foster. Earlier, Jones told reporters the shooting may have been “targeted” and noted there was no apparent ongoing threat to anyone in the vicinity.The wounded were taken to hospitals but there was no word on their conditions, Jones said.A handgun was found in the warehouse, police said. The handgun was determined to have been legally purchased by the suspect in September 2024, Daryl McCormick, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Columbus Field Division, said in a news briefing Wednesday afternoon.”He was not a prohibitive person, so he was able to lawfully purchase that firearm,” said McCormick, who added that the handgun was identified as a Glock 26 9mm pistol. The ATF is working to trace the gun to find out if it has previously been used in other crimes.The city said police responded at about 10:30 p.m. to the active shooter situation at KDC/One, which is a cosmetics and toiletries company.Jones said some people were “self evacuating” when officers arrived and the rest in the “large building” were evacuated to another building nearby, roughly 150 in all. He told CBS News earlier that a drone was used to help clear them out.Jones noted that some were being interviewed and there was a language barrier with several. Many didn’t know what had happened until they were evacuated, Jones said.”This has been a very tragic situation. Our thoughts go out to the victims, their families and everybody that works at this facility” Jones said. “This is something that we hoped would never happen in our community, but we prepare for it, and this is where we are now.”New Albany is 15 miles northeast of Columbus.

Alex Sundby

contributed to this report.

Brian Dakss is a longtime New York-based editor and writer for CBS News, at the Radio network and with CBSNews.com. He has written and edited for NBC News, Dow Jones and numerous radio stations and been a radio anchor and reporter.
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