Deadly shooting on Ohio State's campus
University employee kills co-worker, then self
March 9, 2010, 1:11 p.m.
STAFF REPORT
A new Ohio State University custodial employee who received a bad job evaluation shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, officials said Tuesday.
Nathaniel Brown, who had been hired in October, arrived for work in dark clothing with two handguns in a backpack, campus Police Chief Paul Denton said in a news conference.
Denton described the shooting as work-related and said Brown recently received a poor performance evaluation, though he declined to say whether that was the motive.
No students were hurt; classes continued as scheduled.
One of the victims, 48-year-old building services manager Larry Wallington, died at the scene. The other victim, 60-year-old operations shift leader Henry Butler, was in stable condition at Ohio University Medical Center, officials said.
More than a half-dozen employees were in the maintenance building when the shooting occurred and have been offered grief counseling, according to Denton.