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This is what happens when trades just don't go your way: Gunman Kills 9 in Atlanta Office Buildings By SHELLEY HILL .c The Associated Press ATLANTA (July 29) - A gunman opened fire in an office building Thursday, killing at least nine people, Mayor Bill Campbell said. Police hunted for the gunman and said he may have fled to the roof of a building across the street. Mayor Bill Campbell said the gunman was a day trader who had done business with a brokerage in the building The man, identified as Mark O. Barton, 44, of suburban Morrow, ''was concerned about financial losses,'' he said. Some witnesses told WSB-TV the shootings were at All-Tech Investment Group, a day-trading company on the third floor of the building. The gunfire was reported about 3 p.m. in Two Security Center, which houses a travel agency, the brokerage and other offices. It is in the wealthy and fashionable Buckhead section in northern Atlanta. Dozens of police officers swarmed the building, apparently in an attempt to find the gunman.Quigley said the gunman, described as 6 feet 4 and white with a receding hairline, may have fled to another office building. Office workers were asked to stay inside Two Security Center, but some were later escorted outside in small groups. 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. ''We have no idea what caused Mr. Barton to begin shooting,'' Campbell said. ''Those who have identified Mr. Barton indicated he came in, had a normal conversation and then began shooting.'' Some people were still hiding in offices in the building nearly three hours after the shooting. Campbell said police SWAT units were going through every building in the area floor by floor, office by office, trying to find Barton. Police also searched the trunks of cars leaving the area. Harvey Houtkin, 50 year old president and founder of All-Tech Investment Group, said from his office in Montvale, N.J., said his employees told him the suspect hadn't traded since April. ''All I can tell you, I had one of my clients in that office called me after this happened. He (the gunman) was a former client.'' Houtkin said. Chris Carter, who works for Allegiance Telecom on the third floor, said that as police escorted him out, he saw a man's body lying on the floor. ''They weren't attending to him, which led me to believe he was dead,'' Carter said. Scott Belazi, who also works on the third floor of the building, said police told him a man walked into the building's leasing office on that floor and shot someone. ''They got us out of there,'' he said. ''We saw a bunch of blood in the leasing office.'' Just last month a psychiatrist in Michigan was killed by his former patient, who also gunned down a 45-year-old woman and injured four other people in the attack. He then fatally shot himself. In April, a 71-year-old man raked the first floor of the Mormon Family History Library in Salt Lake City with .22-caliber handgun fire, killing two people and wounding four others before police shot him to death. The library shooting came just more than three months after a 24-year-old man allegedly walked into a downtown Salt Lake office building with a grocery sack of bullets and opened fire. One person died and another suffered minor gunshot wounds in the Jan. 14 shooting. AP-NY-07-29-99 1754EDT Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. Hopefully Mr. Barton wasn't a SI disciple. I think all of us could find a little better way of dealing with a down market day. Look out Market makers, you could be next! | ||||||||||||
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