Several Shot Near UPS Facility in San Francisco -- Update
June 14 2017 - 3:06PM
Dow Jones News
By Jim Carlton
SAN FRANCISCO -- Several people were shot, and some possibly
killed, at a UPS facility here Wednesday morning.
Police swarmed the area and ordered residents to shelter in
place.
San Francisco police said in a statement released over Twitter
that they had "contained the incident & building is secure."
Police were searching the building "for additional victims and
witnesses."
In a statement Wednesday, UPS said it "confirms there was an
incident involving 4 employees within the company's facility in San
Francisco earlier this morning." The company said there are
"potentially multiple deaths, although individuals were transported
to the hospital so we are unsure of their status at this time."
The company said it is cooperating with law enforcement but
couldn't identify any of the people involved "pending the police
investigation."
Natalie Godwin, a spokeswoman for UPS based in Atlanta, said the
facility is a package sorting hub and delivery center. The company
employs 350 people there, she said.
According to local media reports, the incident occurred shortly
after 9 a.m. in the city's densely crowded Potrero Hill
district.
A spokesman for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital told
the Associated Press that the hospital received victims but didn't
release information about the number or their conditions.
Police closed down blocks surrounding the UPS center and
helicopters circled overhead as employees lined up a block
away.
The shooting took place just hours after the mass shooting at a
congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va.
Details weren't immediately available about the alleged
shooter.
Write to Jim Carlton at jim.carlton@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 14, 2017 14:51 ET (18:51 GMT)
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