The incident took place when a disgruntled United Parcel Service Inc employee opened fire as workers gathered for their daily morning meeting at a company facility in the Potrero Hill area.
Two other people were shot and have been taken to an area hospital, San Francisco police said. Police have not identified the gunman or the victims.

After firing on co-workers, the suspect turned a gun on himself when confronted by police and later died in hospital.

The shooter and three victims were all drivers, according to Steve Gaut, head of investor relations at UPS.

Witnesses say they heard several shots and saw people running out the UPS building following the loud bangs.


One UPS worker said the fire alarm sounded and people fled the building, while the shooter went on a rampage on the third floor.

While workers on a company-sponsored bus were screaming for the driver to go as they desperately tried to flee the scene.

Brent Andrew, from the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, says the emergency department had multiple admissions from theUPS shooting and “we expect more”.

The incident was not terrorism related but the motive is not known, Assistant Chief Toney Chaplin told a news conference. Police recovered two firearms from the UPS facility, which employs 350 people.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said on Twitter. said: “We are always saddened by the loss of life to gun violence. Any shooting is one shooting too many.”

A dramatic photo shot from a distance showed at least six people on the facility’s rooftop with their hands held up.

But witnesses say they were eventually rescued by police.

In a series of tweets that began just after 9 am, police said to avoid the area of 17th Street and Vermont Avenue.

Police officials did not immediately say if anyone was wounded or killed but officers are urging those in the area to “shelter in place” until further notice.

The situation is ongoing and police said they would alert people when the lockdown has been lifted.

Many Twitter users reacted with sadness at reports of another shooting in the US.

One tweeted: “We go from rolling news on Virginia mass shooting to breaking news of a mass shooting in San Francisco. This country is broken.”

Another said: “Prayers to all of those affected in the San Francisco shooting today. TO MANY GUNS!”

And a third added: “At least 5 people shot, 2 dead in San Francisco, law enforcement officials tell NBC News.

“It just goes on and on and on…”

A UPS spokesman confirmed there was an “incident involving employees” at the facility.

A statement from the company read: ” Local law enforcement have control of the facility and are conducting an investigation.

“The company is cooperating with law enforcement. We cannot provide information as to the identity of persons involved at this time, pending the police investigation.”

In 2014, a man shot and killed two of his supervisors before turning the gun on himself at a UPS distribution center in Birmingham, Alabama. The gunman had recently been fired from the facility.

The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history occurred in June 2016 when a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State militant group killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.


Source:
http://newspaperupdate.com/san-francisco-lockdown-four-dead-and-five-injured-after-shooting-at-ups-depot/

Damn...that's traumatic.

Na people wey wear cloth dey mad pass the ones wey dey street, na just the cloth wey dey disguise dem.


And we're beginning to clamour for the right to bear arms in Nigeria. It'll be total chaos. Not that the world is even much of a pleasant place to be in at the moment sef...