San Francisco assistant police chief Toney Chaplin said at a news conference that two others were wounded in the shooting that prompted a massive police response in an industrial neighborhood near downtown.
Police have not determined a motive. Chaplin said that the shooter was armed with an assault pistol and put the weapon to his head and pulled the trigger when police found him.
A UPS statement said the shooter and all the victims were employees. Spokesman Steve Gaut told The Associated Press that the gunman opened fire inside the facility before the drivers were sent out for their daily deliveries.
Neighbors said they heard up to eight rapid gunshots.
“It was like tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat,” said Raymond Deng, who lives across the street from the warehouse.
After the gunfire, auto shop owner Robert Kim said he saw “a mob of UPS drivers” running down the street screaming “shooter, shooter.”
Deng, 30, a data scientist for a start-up company, also saw workers fleeing and another group of about 10 who gathered on the roof and held their hands up as police arrived.
“I saw police officers go up from the ramp and then storm the buildings,” he said. “It’s crazy.”
Police responding to the facility in the Potrero Hill area on the city’s eastern edge encountered wounded victims and pulled them to safety. Then they found the gunman, who killed himself.
Investigators recovered two firearms from the scene.
Uniformed UPS employees were later led out in a line by officers next to a highway. They walked away calmly with emergency vehicles nearby and gathered nearby outside a restaurant.
It came the same day a gunman opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice, wounding U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others.
This post has been updated.
Another mass workplace shooting. We will never learn. Meanwhile the NRA has congress wound around its finger, the 2nd amendment above all other things.
Insanity rules.
We are indeed surrounded by the both the stupid and the massively angry. It’s never going to stop until the GOTP grows up.
My neighborhood.
Well after all the current regime in Washington is nostalgic for the 80’s. Supply side economics. Lifestyles of the Rich and famous type programs on TV. The nouveau riche are championed while the working class and poor are pit against each other. The drug war is ramped up.
Might as well add postal facilities shootings to the list.
meanwhile Congress decides today may not be the right time to bring up the silencer bill