ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY AN EMPLOYEE OF A FOOD DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSE WHO SHOT THREE PEOPLE AT THE FACILITY MONDAY NIGHT WAS DISGRUNTLED AND THE ATTACK WAS SPONTANEOUS. APD SAYS WAID MELTON, THE SUSPECT, MAY HAVE BEEN PASSED OVER FOR A PROMOTION AT THE COMPANY.
ALL THREE VICTIMS REMAIN HOSPITALIZED…TWO IN CRITICAL CONDITION, THE OTHER IN STABLE CONDITION. CHIEF MICHAEL GEIER SAYS AFTER THE SHOOTING THEY WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT THE 30 YEAR OLD MELTON HAD FLED THE SCENE IN A VEHICLE. HE SAYS NEGOTIATORS MANAGED TO CONTACT MELTON BY CELL PHONE, BUT LATER FOUND HIM DEAD NEAR PLACITAS NORTH OF ALBUQUERQUE.
GEIER SAYS MELTON APPARENTLY HAD SOME MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND HAD BEEN USING DRUGS. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AT THE BEN E. KEITH WAREHOUSE NEAR GIBSON AND BROADWAY.
