Fired Employee Kills 1, Injures 2 in New York

World | August 30, 2007, Thursday // 00:00

A man who was fired from his job as a janitor in Co-op City in the Bronx and lost a lawsuit to get his job back returned to the housing complex with a .38-caliber revolver and shot three former colleagues, one of them fatally, the New York Times reported.

The police said the gunman, Paulino Valenzuela, 50, then boarded a public bus, went to the Bronx Criminal Court building and turned himself in to the authorities.

Valenzuela, of 120 Casals Place in the Bronx, was fired from the RiverBay Corporation, the management company that runs Co-op City, in 2005. Last year, he filed a federal lawsuit to get his job back. The case was dismissed on Friday.

Before he was fired, Valenzuela had been suspended three times since 2000 for threatening co-workers.

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