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This account is from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_murders).
The Xerox shooting was an incident of mass murder that occurred on November 2, 1999, in a Xerox Corporation building in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.
At 8:00 in the morning a service technician working at Xerox opened fire inside the building with a semi-automatic pistol, killing his supervisor and six co-workers, and fired in the direction of another co-worker who fled the building. The eighth person escaped injury.
After the shooting, the shooter fled in a company van, and by mid-morning, he was found sitting in the van near the Hawaii Nature Center in Makiki, above downtown Honolulu. He held a standoff with police that lasted for five hours, during which he brandished a pistol, read magazines and smoked cigarettes. Adding to the tension of the standoff, the Hawaii Nature Center was hosting thirty-five local school children, who were trapped inside without food or water. The shooter surrendered to police at approximately 3:00 p.m. He eventually was tried and convicted of the murders.
Killed:
Jason Balatico, 33
Ford Kanehira, 41
Ronald Kataoka, 50
Ronald Kawamae, 54
Melvin Lee, 58
Peter Mark, 46
John Sakamoto, 36
After this event, the HI state legislature passed a law that requires doctors to reveal information about the mental state of persons applying to buy guns.
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