St. Louis Shooting Update

CNN is reporting 3 dead, 5 injured.  The gunman may be among them, preliminary reports are that the gunman is an ABB employee named Timothy Hendron.  But the most heartbreaking part of this is the possible motive:

Hendron is one of a group of ABB employees listed in a lawsuit filed in 2006 against administrators of the company's retirement plan. The suit, filed in federal court, accuses the administrators of, among other things, causing the plan to include "unreasonable and excessive" fees and expenses, paid by participants, without their knowledge and not used for their benefit or that of the plan.

Linda Siegfried, a spokesman for the law firm representing the plaintiffs, confirmed to CNN that Hendron was among the plaintiffs, although his name is spelled three different ways in court documents.

A trial on the matter is currently being held in Kansas City, Missouri, Siegfried said. She didn't know whether Hendron would have been required to be present. Online federal court records show the trial began Tuesday.

Nice.  So ABB's on trial for ripping off employees on their pension plan, and one guy decided he had enough.  It's a horrible story, and there's no excuse for that kind of violence, ever.  There's no justification for it.  But the pension plan trial just compounds the tragedy.