Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > oh.general > #1666

Ohio Workplace Shooting: Neighbor describes watching suspect getting arrested

Cross-posted to 6 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

https://wjactv.com/news/nation-world/large-police-presence-in-new-albany-
industrial-area-smiths-mill-road-n

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — The man accused of killing one person and injuring 
five others was taken into custody about 12 hours after he allegedly 
opened fire in a Central Ohio warehouse.

https://youtu.be/YFweOG-6TX0

According to a statement from New Albany police, authorities executed a 
search warrant at an apartment in the University District area near the 
OSU campus at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, where they arrested Bruce 
Reginald Foster III.

New Albany police and Columbus police said Foster was taken into custody 
in the area of 7th Avenue and High Street.

https://youtu.be/F9btq8w1DKU

First responders were called to the KDC/One facility, a beauty product 
company, in the area of the 8800 block of Smiths Mill Road North just 
before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

"We've been shot at KDC/ Albany One, I've been shot!.." a caller told 911.

"Where is the shooter?

"The shooter is still inside the building... I've been shot on my neck and 
my body is on the floor, but I took the gun away from him."

New Albany Police Chief Greg Jones said Foster, 28, works at that location 
and was on the clock for several hours before the shooting took place.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFsmgK9s1ia/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=ce9085
1e-bfa5-42f0-a9f4-69cc7a3d662d

"(Managers and employees) did say that nobody here noticed any type of 
confrontation or anything that might have triggered this," Jones said 
during a news conference Wednesday morning.

Jones added that Foster was the only suspect. The handgun he's accused of 
using was found at the scene.

"This appears at this point to be a targeted attack," he said, cautioning 
that the investigation was in its preliminary stages. It's not known who 
Foster may have been targeting.

About 150 people were inside the building at the time of the shooting. 
Jones said some employees did not know anything had happened in part 
because of the sheer size of the facility.

"This has been a very tragic situation," he said. "Our thoughts go out to 
the victims, their families, and everybody that works at this facility. 
This is something that we hoped that would never happen in our community. 
But we prepare for it."

Police were not able to give specifics on the conditions of the wounded 
who were rushed to hospitals. The person who died was declared dead at the 
scene. That person's identity was not immediately released.

Four of the five injured victims were rushed to Mount Carmel East 
Hospital, but it remains unclear where the fifth person was being treated.

Law enforcement officers had checked several locations before sunrise 
Wednesday in their search for Foster.

Tuesday's incident was the third such shooting at a large warehouse in 
Central Ohio since 2022.

The ATF and the Ohio BCI are among the agencies helping investigate the 
scene, which Jones said likely will keep the facility closed throughout 
much of the day.

What is KDC/One?
According to the website, KDC/One is an international company that 
develops, creates, and packages beauty and personal care products. 
However, ABC6 Investigates uncovered the New Albany location has received 
a series of serious safety violations from the Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration. OSHA issued the company a $40,000 fine.

The Licking County Auditor's website shows that Tri-Tech Laboratories 
purchased the New Albany property in 2010. In 2011, the warehouse was 
built. In 2019, the name was transferred to KDC US Holdings Inc.

OSHA inspected the New Albany warehouse after receiving a complaint on KDC 
TriTech Laboratories in 2015. In 2016, inspectors issued nine safety 
violations, of which six were considered "serious." Several violations 
focused on what inspectors called hazards with warehouse equipment.

Inspectors noted,

"Located in the maintenance shop, employees operated a Birmingaham, model 
number YCL-1440GK lathe, serial number 07015211, that did not have a guard 
over the lathe's chuck, thereby exposing employees to a caught-in hazard. 
c. Located on Line 6 Terco machine, there was an opening in the guarding 
where caps entered the Terco machine that did not prevent employee 
exposure to the moving parts where the collet would press caps on to 
bottles, thereby exposing employees to an amputation and/or laceration 
hazard."

Another violation addressed a lack of training for electrical work.

"Located throughout the facility, employees performed electrical work in 
panel boxes without having the required training for electrical work; 
thereby exposing employees to arc flash and/or electrical shock hazards," 
the OSHA inspector stated.

A non-serious violation cited the lack of proper reporting of a workplace 
injury.

"On or about November 8, 2015, an employee was hospitalized after 
receiving burn injuries to the upper portion of the body. The employer did 
not report the inpatient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours," stated 
the inspector.

Wednesday afternoon, KDC/One released a statement from CEO Nick Whitley in 
response to the deadly workplace shooting.

“We are shocked and saddened by the tragic shooting that occurred on 
February 4 at our New Albany, Ohio facility. Our thoughts and prayers are 
with those impacted and their families. The safety and well-being of our 
employees is our top priority. We are actively assisting the New Albany 
Police Department in their ongoing investigation and are sincerely 
grateful for the swift action of our local authorities and first 
responders.”

Living next door to the accused shooter
Ohio State student Luke, who lives in the complex, said he was studying in 
his second-floor apartment on Wednesday morning when he heard shouting in 
the hallway. "I heard the shouting from police," he said.

"Police just shouted, 'Raise your hands,' they just handcuffed and took 
him away."

Authorities said they were forced to enter an apartment and tase the 
suspect when he refused their orders to come out.

Foster had been living in a one-bedroom apartment next to Luke for several 
months. Luke mentioned that although he did not have conversations with 
Foster, one of his friends had seen the suspect in the study room.

"It's kind of crazy to us because, you know, like a suspect, a very 
dangerous suspect, Just live next door."

Foster graduated from Brookhaven High School in 2014 and graduated from 
Columbus State Community College in 2019 with an associate of arts degree 
in 2019.


-- 
November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look 
forward to America being great again.

The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and 
eradicated.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that 
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden 
fiasco, President Trump.  

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood 
queer liberal democrat donors.

Back to oh.general | Previous | Next | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Ohio Workplace Shooting: Neighbor describes watching suspect getting arrested "Leroy N. Soetoro" <democrat-insurrection@mail.house.gov> - 2025-02-05 23:55 +0000

csiph-web