quote: TROY, Michigan (CNN) -- A gunman opened fire Monday inside a suburban Detroit office building, killing one person and injuring two others, police said.
Local television reports said the person killed was a woman and two men were injured.
Troy police Lt. Gerry Scherlinck said authorities had found a suspect, Anthony LaCalamita, 38, a former employee of an accounting firm in the building.
Scherlinck said the shooter used either a rifle or a shotgun, The Associated Press reported. Police had recovered a gun from the vehicle in which the suspect was caught, the AP reported.
Scherlinck said police had stopped LaCalamita in a vehicle on Interstate 75 in the Saginaw, Michigan, area.
Police earlier had issued an alert for LaCalamita's 2007 silver Ford Fusion.
A Web site for the public accounting firm Gordon Advisors in the building lists LaCalamita as an employee.
"We heard gunshots. ... We're on the third floor, barricaded in," Bill Adgate, who works for LPL Financial in the office building, told CNN affiliate WDIV-TV as the search went on for the gunman.
"We put a conference table in front of the front door with a bunch of chairs," Adgate told WDIV, a Detroit station. "We have four entrances -- three entrances to our offices. We put file cabinets and things of that nature in front of it."
I work in Troy, about maybe a mile or two away from where the shooting happened. We watched the coverage all morning at work on the big plasma screens (it's a sports bar). Frankly I thought the coverage largely sucked. They had people calling in who "work nearby" who were giving their account of what happened. So what? I work nearby, and I wasn't about to call in to say "hey I drive by that building every day, go figure eh?"
And the guy was caught near Saginaw. Everyone form a Michigan shaped map with your right hand, Saginaw is at the base of the inside part of the thumb, and Troy is 25 minutes away from Detroit, depending on traffic and what roads you take. But the entire coverage of the event described it as an event happening "in Detroit." It's ridiculous that whenever something bad anywhere near Detroit happens, it goes towards the bad image of Detroit. I'm tempted to let it go becuase Detroit is often used interchangeably with "the Detroit Metro area" and in fact I often say I live in Detroit just because it's easier. Troy, until today anyway, was ranked I think the third or fourth safest city in AMERICA. It just seems to me like anything bad that happens in the southeast quadrant of Michigan is automatically linked to Detroit, but whenever something good happens, it's always in the suburbs.
Anyway, I thought the coverage was weak, and revolved around second and third hand accounts from people who had no idea what was going on, and featured a helicopter image of the roof of the building.
I believe the two injured people are still in surgery in Royal Oak (where I live), but they're at one of the best hospitals in the country (a couple of my cousins work there), so I have high hopes for their recovery.
And above all that, it's friggin freaky that it's so close to where I work.
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quote:Troy, until today anyway, was ranked I think the third or fourth safest city in AMERICA.
Interestingly enough, this is what the report I saw emphasized the most. They mentioned it two or three times in a segment less than five minutes long. I suspect they were trying to play up the "ZOMG! IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE," angle.
EDIT - they also showed footage of some official at a press conference. He kept fighting off a grin, which I thought was just a teensy bit amusing/creepy.
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