3 Killed, 2 Hurt in Shooting at N.C. Lumber Yard
- Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:36am by
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STAR, N.C. (AP) — Three people were killed and two injured, including the gunman, after a shooting at a lumber company by a man witnesses said was an employee.
Sheriff Dempsey Owens says four people were shot early Friday in the McBride Lumber Co. just north of Star. Owens says three people were killed, and one was flown to a hospital.
He says the gunman shot himself at his home and was taken to a hospital.
Authorities haven’t released the names of the victims.
Owens says the shooter left a note, but he didn’t give details of the content. He said witnesses reported the gunman was a disgruntled employee.
A person who answered the phone at the business said they had no comment.
But one of the company‘s founder’s, Dorothy McBride, said she was shocked.
“Oh, my God, I can’t believe it,” she said. “I just can’t talk about it right now. I have to find out more.”
A family owned business, the company makes pallets and treated wood for furniture and other products.
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TexasPeach
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 5:45pmI feel the need to repeat something I posted on another story: Pastor John Heagy of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas said to a fellow passenger on an airplane who said he didn’t believe in God or the Bible. To this Pastor replied: “You don’t have to believe in Hell to go there.”
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 4:56pmOne more splinter and I am going to shoot all these illegal azzoles I work with…I swear!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 3:29pmGod bless the families & friends of those injured or killed. Please, Lord, show them Your mercy & love. Give them the strength they are going to need for the rest of their lives.
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:10pmYay, Jesus! Truly the work of a great and powerful god.
What’s that you say? Satan did this? This isn’t your work? But, didn‘t you make Satan and don’t you have the power to destroy Satan? I mean, if you have seen everything since the beginning of time, then you must have known that Satan was going to turn on you, right? And you must have known that all of this was going to happen.
Or maybe you just aren’t that powerful.
Or maybe you just don’t care.
Or maybe you just don’t exist.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:24pm@foxhole
Report Post »Take this from an agnostic, you have a while lot of anger for something you say doesn’t exist. Do you have the same level of hate for other things you don’t believe in like maybe santa or the easter bunny.
drattastic
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:26pmWhole *
Report Post »HoggKilla
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:20pm@ FOXHOLEATHEIST – Why so much anger towards religion? Are you lonely? Feeling like you need some acceptance on the ol’ Internet? Were you picked on as a child, asked for gods help, but the little girls kept picking on you anyway. Whatever it is… you need professional assistance. Posting comments on the Blaze is not helping your deeper, darker issues. Good luck with that.
Report Post »megamind
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:20pmJust another nonconformist conforming to nonconformity………………..leftist tool.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:32pmIt is obvious that you believe. You are mad at God and want to “get even” with Him by professing that He doesnt exist. Most atheists are simply angry believers just like you.
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:42pmThose companies hire a lot of illegal aliens, could be a factor
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:46pmFind a popular blog site and dump your garbage, sad way to get attention “hole”
Report Post »Jesus LIVES and that is the end of that
NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 3:08pm@A-HOLEATHEIST Why don’t you go celebrate your big “victory” you morons had where that 16yr old had that prayer banner removed from that school because it “offended” her! Nothing offends me more than some atheist having any little reference to God removed from public life,if HE doesn’t exist then we just will look silly,but if HE does,then you lose out on eternal life! I’d get a good pair of knee pads if I were you,you will be kneeling in front of one master or the other!
Report Post »weneedrubio
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 3:14pmChange your name foxhole you obviously have never served. No one who has would be that ignorant and lack any compassion whatsoever. Your arrogance and bigotry is telling. Go outside and get some sun and then go find someone to be a friend with. You need one.
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 3:42pmNope, just hate against the ignorance it breeds. But hey, I‘m just using logic I learned from listening to Xtians try to reason and make excuses for something that doesn’t exist.
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 4:00pm@FOXHOLEATHEIST… Lucky you, God doesn’t believe in atheists.
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 4:01pmI’m a Xtian now. I learned all about it from listening to you guys on this board. Thank you for showing me how Jesus really feels. Jesus loves everybody. Except for gays, Jews, Arabs, women, children, small animals, and the very ill. For a dead man, I had no idea his mind was so easy to read.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 4:03pmFOX You truly work hard to make yourself not believe there is a higher power than yourself. God Bless and may the faith of the Lord run free in your body. You would be amazed at what you can find inside yourself if you were actually looking. This wasn‘t God’s work today. He gave man the ability to make decisions wrong or right. God did his work accepting him into his arms once they passed this small stepping stone we call earth.
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 4:26pmAnd if I believe really really hard and clap my hands then Tinker Bell will come back to life.
Report Post »HoggKilla
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 4:58pmEveryone, stop giving FOXHO attention. He’s looking for attention. I have little kids that do the same thing. FOXHO, maybe you need some warm milk and a nap….
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 5:05pmHOGGKILLA Where abouts do you hunt at?
Report Post »Mite43
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 6:09pmPsalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. God is not mocked Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. God was there,man is the reason for the problem,not God. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? When we chose to not to believe in God, we chose to believe a lie John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. We will ALL stand before God to be judged Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: Even the so-called atheist Will stand before Him to be judged, even if they don’t believe in God.
Report Post »LuvsYeshua
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:46pm@ Foxhole (doubt you’ve ever actually been in a real one, but I digress).
So over the last several decades you and your people have convinced weak, spineless Christians (and most American Christians are) to kick God (Jesus) out of everything from government, to school, to military, to any sort of public space or office, and then have the audacity to ask “Where is God?” We kicked Him out! He’s giving us what we wanted or at least “tolerated”: a country free from God. This can only be reversed if we repent, seek Him, and restore Him to His rightful place in our hearts and in all aspects of our government. Stop being such weak little children, so-called Christian men!
I strongly urge everyone to read “The Harbinger” by Jonathan Cahn.
Report Post »yancie
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 9:59amRead the BIBLE it will scare the Hell out of you.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:25pm.
It‘s Obama’s Fault….
All his class warfare talk, set this poor worker off. Sense Obama stired all this up, even though he did not pull the Trigger. He should be charged with MURDER………….
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:34pmBarry is a community agitator after all,it’s his forte.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:15pmMore “fuel” for Holder and the DOJ and of course BHO for more “tuffer” gun laws. You can just see it coming……….soon.
Report Post »Redscot
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:15pmYup, little Mr perfect just set off another bomb. Obama wants this sort of thing.
Report Post »HoggKilla
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 2:20pm@ FOXHOLEATHEIST – Why so much anger towards religion? Are you lonely? Feeling like you need some acceptance on the ol’ Internet? Were you picked on as a child, asked for gods help, but the little girls kept picking on you anyway. Whatever it is… you need professional assistance. Posting comments on the Blaze is not helping your deeper, darker issues. Good luck with that.
Report Post »John2261
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:23pmMaji- You need to get out more. I’m a New Yorker and take offense to your comment that Everyone you met was super nice with “one exception”…New Yorkers!!
Until you meet true New Yorkers I would suggest you keep you ill advised comments to yourself.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:35pmI didn’t say “I” disliked NYers.
Report Post »(read it again)
If you are a New Yorker good for you!
I have good friends that are NYers. I didn’t think you guys got offended.
Maji
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:37pmSorry shouldn’t have phrased it that way…you’re right.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:45pmin other words you would limit his free speech.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:23pmJohn2211
Ahhhhh I see!
Now I see the full (1st) post!
It’s hard to post from a “cell” !!!
That wasn’t the full post and now I understand what you mean.
“ill advised”…as it was!
Report Post »NC
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:06pmI’d post a comment about Montgomery County, NC, that one county that every State has that many of the crazies and mal-contents live, but that would not be respectful to the families of the fatalities.
With that in mind, I’ll just not comment at all.
NC (no comment)
Report Post »Mannax
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:35pmTo speak as you have just spoken is to render the comment you were going to make. You have shown no respect for anyone who lost family in this. Next time, come out and have the backbone to actually say what you want, or the civility to keep your words to yourself completely.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:02pmThis is a shock,
Report Post »I know this little town(it’s almost a town)!
These are some of the nicest people you
could ever meet.
Maji
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:19pmMontgomery county is farmers….thats it!!
Report Post »As far a crazies I never met any(that was 25 yrs ago).
Everyone I met was super nice with “one exception”…New Yorkers!!
FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:14pmWell, thanks be to the lord for this blessing. Surely it is his will because nothing happens on the earth without his say-so. God has something special planned for these peaceful people. I just know it.
You and everyone in this town should be thanking Jesus for yet another miracle. Perhaps we could pray it all away. After all, prayer works, right? Jesus promised.
Report Post »acdcguy
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:01pmWhen I’m asked why I carry, I relay stories just like this one and there are plenty of ‘em………that and it’s my right
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:47pmten four
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:52amGod rest the souls of the slain.
If you want to off yourself fine, but don’t take out others to go with you; what did the other employee’s do to you? Except they are perhaps going to heaven and you will be “in the lake of fire”.
I think we should have a mandatory government program that requires all men to go through a psych evaluation and confiscate all weapons when they get fired. I swear men have NO coping skills.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:14pmSo according to you the males of our species is always at fault? I think you need some mental help. ALL humans are capable of this sort of crime. (BTW, I am a female of our species).
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:15pmAnother govt program,to evaluate us when we are fired.They would do a real fine job.Maybe the TSA could train them
And by the way what has some mentally ill person have to do with me owning a gun.
The best defense for this is conceal carry,If they know anyone could be packing the cowards will go to the basement and choke the chicken while admiring skinheads online
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 1:22pmYes, they are all going to heaven. We know this for sure and I mean FOR SURE. Well, not really, but we all know it to be true because we know it in our heart. Just like I knew in my heart that no one would die or jump to their deaths from the World Trade Center even though I watched it burn, and just like I know in my heart that Pat Robertson is an upstanding and honest individual. Why? Because he says so and I take people at their word all the time. He’s a man of god. Why would he lie?.
Meanwhile, the victims of this blessing may leave behind children or spouses or friends who loved them and needed them, but Jesus decided to take them in this wonderful and miraculous way. So next time someone close to you dies, especially if you lose them in a way similar to this one, just think about how great god is and how they are all up in heaven with the souls of victims of senseless tragedies as well as there with the soul of someone like maybe Ted Bundy, since he was a Xtian before he died and came to know the lord, and what a comfort it is that god loves each and every one of us enough to kill them just to maybe teach one of us a life lesson.
Report Post »PimpleJuice
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:51amThis why they should ban all guns! Bwahahahaha bwahahahahaha. Obama for dict 2012, 2016,2020
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:02pmCheck out the gun for ties to Fast and Furious …
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:45amIs it just me or does this seem to be becoming more and more common?
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:00pmSnow, ten years ago this would be a non-story, but since odumbass, and eric the red commie holder are in power, these will come to light more often, and with great intensity.The media will blow this out of proportion, and the Blaze is just as guilty.Yes this is news, and is a bad thing, but this is in the news as an excuse for tougher gun laws, hide and watch.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:23pmUnstable people under extreme financial stress do crazy things…We will see more of this…We need peace and prosperity.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:32pmWhen depression 2.0 starts this will be an every day routine occurrence.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:45amThis is why I have concealed carry. If everyone was able to shoot at each other this would never have turned out this way.
TEA
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 11:54amyep….if you want polite respectful people……….go to a gun range
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:03pmIf most men nowdays were real men this wouldn’t be happening at all. What ever happened to punching someone out if you had a problem with them? The way liberals have sissified our culture everyone is afraid of being sued so instead they take the cowards way out of murder/suicide.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on January 13, 2012 at 12:50pmblackhawk..what if you are a small man or crippled or scared to fight…big guys always have had the upper hand…thank God for guns.
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