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Minneapolis workplace shooting leaves 5 dead

The sheriff's department along with AFT officials search the home of a suspect in the shooting of several people in a sign shop in Minneapolis on Thursday. Authorities say a gunman killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign-making business before turning the weapon on himself. Officers summoned Thursday afternoon by a 911 call discovered the victims' bodies shortly after arriving at Accent Signage Systems Inc. on the city's north side, police say. Police spokesman Sgt. Stephen McCarty said the gunman also injured four people in the attack.

The sheriff’s department along with AFT officials search the home of a suspect in the shooting of several people in a sign shop in Minneapolis on Thursday. Authorities say a gunman killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign-making business before turning the weapon on himself. Officers summoned Thursday afternoon by a 911 call discovered the victims’ bodies shortly after arriving at Accent Signage Systems Inc. on the city’s north side, police say. Police spokesman Sgt. Stephen McCarty said the gunman also injured four people in the attack.  (Kyndell Harkness / Associated Press)

Five people, including the shooter, were dead after the gunman broke into a sign company’s offices and opened fire, killing the owner and three others before turning the gun on himself.

Minneapolis workplace shooting

Police leave the scene of a fatal workplace shooting in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis on Thursday.  (Renee Jones Schneider/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)

Minneapolis workplace shooting

This July 2012 photo provided by Finance & Commerce shows Reuven Rahamim, owner of Accent Signage in Minneapolis, with a machine he invented for putting Braille lettering on signage, in Minneapolis. Rahamim, 61, was shot to death at Accent Signage Systems Inc., in Bryn Mawr, a mainly residential neighborhood on the northwest side of Minneapolis, after a man burst into the sign-making business, fatally shooting Rahamim and three others in the office before turning the gun on himself, family and officials said Friday.  (Bill Klotz / Associated Press)

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