Cupertino shootings: Police kill suspected gunman
Shareef Allman’s mugshot.
Three Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies on routine patrol shot and killed a man Thursday who police believe to be Shareef Allman, the gunman in the Cupertino quarry shootings, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The identity of the man had yet to be confirmed by the coroner's office, but the body matched the description of Allman, 47, who was on the run after allegedly killing three coworkers and wounding seven people with a handgun and an AK-47 assault rifle on Wednesday.
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The police spotted the man about a block from where Allman had shot a woman yesterday as he attempted to steal her car, near Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Cupertino campus, USA Today reports.
"The subject crouched down behind a vehicle," Sheriff Laurie Smith told the press, according to the L.A. Times. "Deputies attempted to make contact with the suspect. The suspect was armed. … All three deputies fired shots. … The subject was pronounced dead at scene."
Allman had been the target of a massive manhunt since Wednesday morning.
Allman’s motives for shooting his coworkers at Lehigh Hanson's Permanente Cement Plant are still unknown, but his former union shop steward Mike Ambrosio told the San Jose Mercury News that he’d recently read the riot act to Allman over his poor driving record. He then set up a meeting Monday with management to tell officials that Allman's safety record was so bad.
Ambrosio told the San Jose Mercury News that someone must have told Allman about the meeting because on Monday morning, he "seemed to be an exemplary employee."
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