[SSRI-Research] LOCKHEED: Zoloft and Celexa

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> [sSRI-Research] LOCKHEED: Zoloft and Celexa

>

> Paragraph 12 states: " Threatt said he knew Williams

> also was on two

> antidepressants, Zolof and Celexa " .

>

> Also, paragraph 10 says: " For the most part, Threatt

> said, Williams was a

> likable guy, someone who " you could hear laughing

> from across the plant. "

>

>

http://www.meridianstar.com/MERIDIANSTAR/sites/MERIDIANSTAR/0965edition/myar

> ticles597450.asp?P=597450 & S=584 & PubID=9533

>

> Sunday, July 13, 2003

>

> LOCAL NEWS

> Anatomy of a nightmare

> Tracing events of a tragic Tuesday

>

> FAMILY AND FRIENDS - Jinnell Fox Miller clutches the

> hand of Brad Bynum,

> who survived the July 8 shooting at Lockheed Martin

> in Lauderdale County,

> while holding her nephew, Charles Fox, during a

> funeral service Saturday

> at NorthPark Church for Miller's husband, the Rev.

> Charlie " C.J. " Miller.

> >PHOTO BY PAULA MERRITT / THE MERIDIAN STAR

>

> By Fredie Carmichael / staff writer

>

> July 13, 2003

>

> A light fog hung over east Lauderdale County minutes

> before sunrise

> Tuesday as Pete Threatt pulled up a chair inside the

> Lockheed Martin plant

> to finish his Hardee's breakfast biscuit.

>

> A few miles up the road in North Meridian,

> Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy

> Sollie poured a cup of coffee for his wife as he

> prepared for another day

> at the sheriff's department.

>

> In another part of the Lockheed Martin plant, Doug

> Williams and his

> girlfriend, Shirley J. Price, just finished eating

> their breakfast. They

> punched the time clock and were ready to start work.

>

> Three and a half hours later, their lives changed

> forever - when Williams

> opened fire on fellow workers with a 12-gauge

> shotgun, killing five of

> them, injuring nine others and then taking his own

> life.

>

> " It's difficult, " said Threatt, who pleaded with

> Williams to stop the

> shooting spree. " The images of my co-workers being

> shot at point-blank

> range is something you won't ever get out of your

> mind. "

>

> Since then, Sollie, other law officers, Lockheed

> Martin officials and

> workers have tried to piece together exactly what

> happened that day -

> including what might have sparked Williams' actions.

>

> While people still search for a motive, interviews

> with law enforcement

> officials and workers at the plant show how an

> otherwise normal workday

> instantly turned into chaos.

>

> Friendly talk

>

> 8:45 a.m.: Threatt stopped and chatted with Williams

> after the plant's

> 8:30 a.m. break. The two had known each other since

> they started working

> at Lockheed Martin in the early 1980s.

>

> For the most part, Threatt said, Williams was a

> likable guy, someone who

> " you could hear laughing from across the plant. "

>

> But, Threatt said, Williams was known to be battling

> depression since a

> failed marriage in 1989. He also was known to snap

> at other employees,

> including making racial comments.

>

> Threatt said he knew Williams also was on two

> antidepressants, Zoloft and

> Celexa.

>

> That morning, Threatt and Williams talked about the

> voluntary overtime

> shift the two worked two days before. Threatt said

> Williams " gave no

> indications that anything was wrong. "

>

> Minutes after talking with Threatt, Williams passed

> by Brenda DuBose.

>

> DuBose worked near Williams assembling parts for the

> F-22 Raptor jet.

> DuBose said she had worked alongside Williams for

> years and was careful to

> be friendly to him because he was known to have a

> violent temper.

>

> Williams reminded DuBose of a meeting the two were

> scheduled to attend.

>

> " He said, 'Bren, you know we've got that meeting,' "

> DuBose remembered. " I

> just looked at the clock and said, 'Is it that time

> already?' "

>

> DuBose finished her work, clocked out and headed for

> a training trailer

> connected to the plant where she, Williams and about

> 15 others were

> scheduled to attend a required annual business

> ethics class.

>

> But Dubose said Williams stayed in the class for a

> minute before he left,

> telling a few nearby employees " Y'all can handle

> this. " Nightmare begins

>

> About 9:30 a.m.: Williams returned. He bolted

> through the classroom door

> with a semi-automatic rifle strapped on his back, a

> bandoleer draped

> across his chest and a 12-gauge shotgun in his hands

> ready to fire.

>

> One eyewitness said he looked like Sylvester

> Stallone in " Rambo, " the

> violent, 1985 movie in which Stallone used an

> arsenal of weapons to kill

> Vietnamese and free American prisoners of war.

>

> " He busted in the door and said, 'I told y'all to

> stop (expletive) with

> me. Didn't I tell y'all not to (expletive) with

> me?' " DuBose said.

>

> Then Williams fired several shots, killing fellow

> employees Sam Cockrell

> and Mickey Fitzgerald.

>

> Other shots struck DeLois Bailey, Charles Scott and

> Al Collier, seriously

> injuring them. Steve Cobb, the plant manager, Brad

> Bynum, Chuck McReynolds

> and DuBose also were struck by bullet fragments.

>

> A piece of buckshot grazed DuBose's head and hand,

> sending blood down her

> face. Some employees scampered around the floor,

> taking cover under tables

> and under chairs.

>

> Williams then briefly left the room, returned and

> started shooting again.

>

> " That's when he started calling for Jack Johns, "

> another employee, DuBose

> said. " He was looking for him. And I started to

> crawl around and I was

> crying out. "

>

> Williams looked down at DuBose and told her " 'Bren,

> I'm not going to shoot

> you.' "

>

> Williams left the trailer again. Some employees came

> out from under the

> tables. They moved chairs and desks in front of the

> door to barricade the

> entrance.

>

> Williams, however, headed for the plant's main

> floor.

>

> Terror continues

>

> 9:40 a.m.: Sollie sat in his office in downtown

> Meridian, searching the

> Internet for information on an upcoming conference

> designed to prepare law

> officers for terrorism.

>

> Sollie was trying to determine if he and his

> deputies should attend the

> conference.

>

> At Lockheed Martin, Threatt stood on the plant floor

> and was talking with

> Williams' direct supervisor, Jeff McWilliams.

> Threatt, a union steward,

> said he was told by McWilliams that Williams left

> the mandatory class.

>

> " He was talking to me about it when he looked over

> my shoulder and said,

> 'Oh my God!' " Threatt said. " It was Doug. He was

> jogging through the plant

> with his guns, heading towards us. "

>

> Threatt ran to Williams and pleaded " No Doug! Don't

> do this. "

>

> " I put my hands up and I tried to grab the gun and

> take it from him, "

> Threatt said. " I looked into his eyes. Something had

> snapped in the man.

> He wasn't the Doug that I knew.

>

> " Whenever my hand hit the gun, he threw me off like

> I was nothing. He

> leveled the shotgun on me and said, 'Get out of my

> way or I'll kill you,

> too.' I knew it was for real then. "

>

> Police called

>

> 9:43 a.m.: McWilliams and other Lockheed workers

> immediately called 911.

>

> Back at the sheriff's department, Sollie was sitting

> in his office with

> Maj. Ward Calhoun when the dispatch received the

> emergency call. Sollie

> and Calhoun headed for the plant.

>

> Inside the plant, Threatt raced behind Williams and

> screamed for people to

> take cover. But that was a tough task - the plant is

> so noisy that some

> employees where Williams was headed were wearing ear

> plugs.

>

> " I was yelling, but it was no use, " Threatt said.

>

> " I was trying to stop him, but he never turned

> around. He shot three of my

> co-workers at point-blank range within 25 to 30 feet

> in front of me. "

>

> Threatt raced to his co-workers' aid, but they were

> already dead. Killed

> were Lynette McCall, Thomas Willis and Charlie

> Miller. Injured in the

> firing were Henry Odom and Randy Wright.

>

> Then Threatt and another employee, David Blanks,

> watched as Williams'

> girlfriend, Shirley J. Price, held up her hands and

> pleaded with him to

> stop. Williams did.

>

> " We heard another shot. He shot himself in front of

> her, " Threatt said.

> " By the time we ran over to her, she was screaming,

> 'He's killed himself.

> I tried to talk to him and tried to tell him to

> stop, but he killed

> himself.' "

>

> Chaotic scene

>

> 9:49 a.m.: Sollie and Calhoun arrived at the plant

> with several other law

> enforcement officers. They surrounded the building

> and helped employees

> seek shelter away from the plant.

>

> " It was chaos, " Calhoun said. " We started yelling,

> trying to get the

> employees down the hill. "

>

> Inside the plant, Threatt had heard that co-workers

> had been shot inside

> the training trailer - so he headed towards them.

> There, he said, he

> watched his fellow employees become heroes.

>

> When Threatt walked in the trailer, he saw Mark

> Haggard holding pressure

> on Charles Scott's injured leg. At the same time,

> Calvin Driggers ran

> around helping anyone he could.

>

> Meanwhile, DuBose also was busy. She took off her

> flannel shirt and used

> it in an effort to stop the bleeding from Delois

> Bailey's side.

>

> " I'm so proud of my co-workers, " Threatt said. " They

> were all heroes. They

> were doing anything they could to help their

> co-workers. "

>

> Uneasy sleep

>

> 12 midnight Wednesday: Sollie, physically and

> mentally drained, sat in bed

> in his North Meridian home and tried to sleep.

>

> Sollie witnessed the after-effects of the most

> violent crime he had ever

> seen. He and his deputies helped to return order to

> a hectic, chaotic

> scene at Lockheed Martin.

>

> Sollie also hosted two news conferences and spoke on

> his cell phone to

> newspaper, television and radio reporters from

> around the world about what

> had happened.

>

> It was the only thing he thought about the entire

> day. And now he wanted

> to sleep.

>

> " I finally went to sleep shortly after midnight, "

> Sollie said. " I woke up

> at 4:06 a.m. when someone called for another

> interview. "

>

> A few miles down the road in Marion, Threatt was

> also trying to get some

> sleep. But he wasn't as successful as the sheriff,

> not after what

> happened, not after what he saw.

>

> " I haven't been able to sleep much, " Threatt said.

>

> " I lay there and toss and turn, " he said. " I sit and

> wonder if there is

> anything I could have done. It's hard. It's so

> surreal. I don't think I'll

> ever get these images out of my mind. "

>

>

>

>

> © 2003 The Meridian Star .

>