By Gary Lloyd
BIRMINGHAM — Sources have identified the alleged shooter in today’s shooting at the UPS Customer Center in Birmingham.
Sources identified the alleged shooter as 45-year-old Joe Tesney, who formerly worked at UPS before his firing Monday. He was married and the father of two daughters.
Upon officers’ arrival, they initiated a plan of action and proceeded into the building. Once inside, they observed three people lying on the floor inside the facility suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wounds to the body. One person was located outside one of the offices and the other two people were located inside one of the offices. All three individuals were pronounced dead by Birmingham Fire and Rescue.
The Birmingham Police Department’s preliminary investigation revealed that one of the deceased was the shooter, who was terminated from his employment. Apparently, the suspect received his final notification letter in the mail that upheld his termination. The suspect drove himself to the location wearing his work uniform and entered the facility with a firearm and shot two co-workers who were part of management. Detectives are investigating the death as a murder-suicide.
“We are continuing to put the investigative pieces together in this tragic incident of work place violence,” said Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper. “We are doing what we can to assist the families of the victims and their co-workers.”
Tesney was a member at NorthPark Baptist Church in Trussville.
A post on the church’s Twitter account states that the Worship Center will be open today at 6 p.m. “for the NorthPark family to have a time of prayer.”
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