Just in from CNN

CNN) -- Five people were shot dead Tuesday by a gunman who then killed himself at an aircraft parts plant near Meridian, Mississippi, a county sheriff told CNN.

Eight other people were injured by the man armed with a shotgun and semiautomatic rifle, Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie said. They have been taken to a local hospital.

He added that the gunman was an employee at the Lockheed Martin aircraft plant, which makes aircraft parts and employs about 100 people.

Sollie said it appeared the gunman was shooting randomly rather than targeting individual workers.

A SWAT team from the Meridian Police Department and several fire department units were on the scene, officials with those agencies told CNN

I just saw this on CNN a few minutes ago. This is terrible!! :(

That's awful. :(

I am sure glad the teenagers in NJ got caught before they did anything yesterday

Oh man, that was awful.

And I am also glad that those teens in NJ got caught before they did anything awful.

This is just sad and terrible. :(

I've been there years ago!!! My so-called father worked at that plant. Was pretty scary to see it mentioned in a report like this.

Man, that's horrible

I read about this a little earlier. I seriously do not understand why people feel the need to kill people who have caused them no harm?

I bet within twenty years, all business's and places like malls , subways etc will have metal detectors installed

This is such a focked up world we live in.

The shooting occured at the Lockheed Martin plant in Marion (near Meridian). Six people (including the gunman, who killed himself) died and eight more were injured.

The five victims were buried yesterday, and the gunman will be buried today.