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HONOLULU (AP) — In the latest out
burst of workplace violence, a Xerox copi
er repairman shot and killed seven co-work-
ers in his office building yesterday morning,
authorities said. He surrendered after a five-
hour armed standoff with police.
Police believe Byran Uesugi, a 15-year
Xerox employee, shot seven fellow copier
technicians at about 8 a.m. (1 p.m. EST) be
fore fleeing in a company van with a gun.
He eventually stopped several miles away
in a residential neighborhood. Police cor
doned off the neighborhood and began ne
gotiating with him about two hours later.
Some five hours after the shooting be
gan, Uesugi emerged from the van, walked
to the back of the vehicle with his hands
raised and then fell down on the ground.
His brother had helped in the negotiations.
SWAT teams raced toward him with au
tomatic weapons drawn. No shots were
heard, and no injuries were reported.
“It appears as though it was a disgrun
tled employee who snapped,” Mayor Jere
my Harris said. Police would not comment
on a motive, though.
Uesugi, 40, was being booked for inves
tigation of first-degree murder, which carries
a mandatory penalty of life without parole.
The gunfire erupted in an industrial sec
tion of Honolulu, far from the Waikiki tourist
district. Five victims were found dead in a
conference room, and two other bodies
were found nearby. All had been shot with
a 9-mm handgun, authorities said.
Police found 20 9-mm shell casings at
the scene. At Uesugi’s home, they found 11
handguns, 5 rifles and two shotguns.
The victims — male Xerox employees
— were shot on the second floor of the two-
story building, authorities said. They
ranged in age from 33 to 58.
“It’s a shock for all of us. We have such
a safe community, with almost no violent
crime,” Harris said. “To have someone
snap like this and murder seven people is
just absolutely appalling.”
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Uesugi was a member of his high-school
rifle team and had up to 17 weapons reg
istered in his name. “This could have been
much, much worse,” Harris said.
By late yesterday morning in Makiki
Heights, a residential neighborhood near the
shooting scene, negotiators were talking
with the suspect through a bullhorn. He was
seen pacing back and forth outside the van.
Police cordoned off a half-mile area
around his van, which was near the Hawaii
Nature Center. About 60 fourth-graders and
12 chaperones were on a nature hike when
police told them to get to higher ground. A
school bus with two rifle-toting police offi
cers then took the students to safety.
A separate group of first-graders on a field
trip also were evacuated in the afternoon.
About 10 homes also were evacuated.
Neighborhood residents set up lawn chairs
in the streets to watch the situation unfold.
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) —
Rambling journal entries
written by a teen-ager who
killed his parents and two
classmates were read as
his sentencing began yes
terday, with passages de
scribing his feelings of re
jection and evil.
The day’s hearing ended
with the defense playing a
tape of a sobbing Kip Kinkel
describing to detectives how
he shot his mother after
telling her, “1 love you.”
Kinkel’s journal included
repeated threats: "1 am so
full of rage ... Blowing the
school up or walking into a
pep assembly with guns ...
that is how I will repay all
you ... They won’t laugh af
ter they are scraping pieces
of their mothers and sisters
off the wall of my hate.”
Kinkel, 17, hid his face in
his arms as the journal en
tries were read by sheriff's
Detective Pamelia McComas.
He faces 25 years to life in
prison for killing his parents
and going on a shooting ram
page at school.
Afterward, McComas de
scribed finding the bodies of
Kinkel’s parents, and a series
of students from Thurston
High School in Springfield
described how Kinkel
warned an acquaintance to
go home, then pulled a rifle
from underneath his trench
coat and shot two boys out
side the cafeteria.
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