Apr 30, 2008 6:18 pm US/Central
Man Shot Dead Allegedly By Factory Co-Worker
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
An employee working at a factory on the West Side was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon by a co-worker.
The gunman fled the factory, O&G Specialty Wire and Spring, in the 4500 block of West Division shortly after the shooting around 1:30 p.m.
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports it was a scene of anguish and torture for the loved ones of the slain employee, gathered at the factory Wednesday afternoon. His family identified the man as Santos Rivera.
His family says the 28-year-old had worked at the factor for 10 years and was a supervisor. They say he has a wife and three children.
Rivera's nephew explained what they family had been told of the incident.
"He had got sent home; the guy left, but then the supervisors told him to come back to work," he said. "He was working, he had his back toward the guy, but he had ear plugs so he couldn't hear nothing… they told us he just came from the back and shot him."
Authorities say an altercation between two coworkers, a personal dispute of some kind, erupted around 3 p.m. The fight may have been simmering over the course of days.
One employee allegedly left the factory and came back, either alone or with others, and shot the other employee, reportedly in the head.
He died instantly.
The police are looking for the shooter, whose identity they know, but whose whereabouts are not known.
There is no indication that other employees are involved or that the dispute involved anyone but the two employees.
Earlier Wednesday, three people were found shot to death in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.
Two men and a woman were discovered inside a home in the 2800 block of South Kildare Avenue – an area that neighbors say is plagued by gang violence and drug trafficking.
Last week, police found five people found dead in a ransacked home. Those deaths brought the number of people shot to death in Chicago in less than a week to more than a dozen.
CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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