2003 Chicago warehouse shooting

Windy City Core Supply was an auto parts supply warehouse located at 3912 S. Wallace St. in Chicago. The perpetrator of the shooting, 36-year-old Mexican-born Salvador Tapia, was fired from the company in March 2003 for "ten different reasons", including frequently showing up late to work and often missing entire days. His former boss claimed his attitude changed dramatically for the worse around September 2002. Tapia had an extensive criminal record, including a 1989 conviction for unlawful use of a weapon and numerous arrests for threatening and assaulting his family, girlfriends, and a neighbor. His driver's license was revoked in 2000 after two years of suspension for a drunk driving arrest. Despite his lengthy record, Tapia was reported to have served no time in prison. After being fired from the warehouse, Tapia would leave "drunken ramblings" on the office answering machine. ==Shooting==

On August 27, 2003, Tapia returned to his former workplace at around 8:30 a.m. and tied employee Eduardo Sanchez to a metal bar at gunpoint, telling him that he would not kill him and that he was going to "make these people pay". Tapia then waited and fatally shot six employees as they entered through the front door. After Tapia shot himself and smeared his own blood on his face, Sanchez escaped through a back staircase and ran to a nearby restaurant to call the police. A Greyhound bus ticket and several handwritten notes in Spanish were found in Tapia's pockets, which contained vague threats to his girlfriends and were described by investigators as "cryptic" and "difficult to decipher". The weapon used in the shooting, a Walther PP .380 caliber handgun, was likely bought illegally or stolen, as it had been originally sold in 1966 and was last recorded during its legal registration in 1983. ==Victims==

The identities of the deceased, not including the perpetrator, were: • Alan Earl Weiner, 50 • Howard Neal Weiner, 59, brother of Alan • Daniel Melbourne "Danny" Weiner, 30, son of Howard • Calvin Ramsey, 44 • Robert Taylor, 53 • Juan Valles, 35 ==See also==