Rampage Ends With 3 Dead Angry Man Shoots Co-Workers, Then Himself

A plastics factory employee infuriated by an argument at work fatally shot two co-workers and wounded four others Thursday, then fled and killed himself.

Less than two hours after shooting his colleagues, Daniel S. Marsden accosted two women on a Los Angeles street corner and blurted, “This is my last day!” before sticking a gun barrel in his mouth and pulling the trigger.

Marsden was declared dead at Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center.

The bloody rampage at Omni Plastics Inc., about 10 miles southeast of Los Angeles, followed an argument between Marsden, 38, a quality control inspector, and an unidentified co-worker at 9:57 a.m., Whittier police spokesman Chuck Drylie said. Seventy-five people were in the injection-molding plant.

“It was like pow-pow, pow-pow-pow,” said Alfred Garcia, 28, a technical administrator at the plant. “When I ran out, I saw people just scattering.”

Hamad Wardak, 39, died on scene and Salvador Lara, 57, died later at a hospital. Three men and a woman with bullet wounds were hospitalized in good to critical condition.