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To: Puck who wrote (41751)	7/29/1999 6:21:00 PM
From: ayn rand	Respond to of 122087

CBS Nine people were killed and at least twelve were wounded when a gunman opened fire in an office building in the Buckhead section of Atlanta Thursday. The gunman is still at large. Mayor Bill Campbell said the gunman was a day trader who had done business with a brokerage firm in the building. The man, identified by witnesses as Mark O. Barton, 44, of suburban Morrow, "was concerned about financial losses," he said. Barton walked into a brokerage office at Securities Center in the upscale Buckhead section north of Atlanta, then walked across the street and began shooting at another brokerage there, the mayor said. Four of the victims were killed in one building and five in the other, he said. Grady Memorial Hospital said it was treating several victims in critical condition and serious condition. CBS News Correspondent John Roberts reports that a former trader walked into the offices of Alltech Investments and shot the office head and his assistant at point blank range. The gunfire was reported about 3 p.m. in Securities Center, an office building that houses a travel agency, a brokerage and other offices. It is near the heart of Buckhead, an upscale business district north of downtown Atlanta. Dozens of police officers swarmed the building, apparently in an attempt to find the gunman. Quigley said the gunman might have retreated to the roof of an office building across the street. There is no word the suspect has been apprehended. Chris Carter, who works for Allegiance Telecom on the third floor of the building, said he saw a man's body lying on the floor near the leasing office as police escorted him out. "They weren't attending to him, which led me to believe he was dead," Carter said. Street near site of the shooting. He said he believes the man had been shot down the hall from the leasing office, which also is on the third floor. "Obviously, he had run or walked down the hallway and fell into the leasing office, because there was a trail of blood leading from that end of the hallway to our end," he said. Scott Belazi, who works with Carter, said he saw "a bunch of blood in the leasing office." Office workers were asked to stay inside Securities Center, but some were later escorted outside in small groups. Lauren Coinard, who was locked inside her office with three other women, told WSB-TV that police called to tell them to keep their doors locked. "I'm just scared and would like to get out of here," she said.