[SSRI-Research] Prozac: Man shoots supervisors, kills self in Riverside

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> [sSRI-Research] Prozac: Man shoots

> supervisors, kills self in Riverside

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> [-- the use of Prozac was confirmed by Veronica

> Chapin to Drugawareness.org]

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> Friday, September 27, 2002

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> Last modified at 10:07 p.m. on Thursday, September

> 26, 2002

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> Man shoots supervisors, kills self in Riverside

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> 'Disgruntled worker' felt he wasn't liked at job,

> police official says

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http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/092702/met_10557445.shtml

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> By Veronica Chapin

> Times-Union staff writer

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> A state Department of Health employee described as a

> " disgruntled worker " shot two of his Jacksonville

> supervisors then turned the gun on himself at a

> Riverside Avenue office building yesterday morning,

> police said.

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> Philip Thoma, 43, and Don Steiner, 50, were shot at

> least two times each at their office building at

> 1045 Riverside Ave., said Frank Mackesy, director of

> operations with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

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> Both were taken to Shands Jacksonville and listed in

> critical condition yesterday afternoon.

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> Wayne L. Horowitz, 52, was found dead inside the

> building shortly after 9 a.m., from a self-inflicted

> gunshot wound, police said. Some of Horowitz's

> neighbors in his Orange Park subdivision described

> him as friendly and outgoing and expressed shock

> that he was involved.

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> But Mackesy said Horowitz " was unhappy and felt like

> people working with him didn't like him. "

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> The three men were among 15 employees of the

> Department of Health's Radiation Control Division, a

> regulatory division that checks X-ray machines and

> other radiological equipment used at Northeast

> Florida hospitals.

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> Horowitz entered the division's second-floor office

> and told Steiner that he wanted to talk with Thoma.

> He had a seat in Thoma's office, then shot him

> multiple times, Mackesy said.

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> One wounded victim at 1045 Riverside Ave.,

> is loaded into a transporter to be taken to Shands

> Jacksonville.

> -- Don Burk/Staff

> CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE

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> " He didn't say anything, he just stood up and shot

> him, " Mackesy said.

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> As Horowitz was leaving Thoma's office he ran into

> Steiner and shot him also, before turning the gun on

> himself, Mackesy said.

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> Sheriff Nat Glover said three officers responded to

> the multiple shooting about 8:55 a.m.

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> Scott Chomic, who works at 1000 Riverside Drive,

> said two women were upset when they came running

> into his office and told him two people had been

> shot.

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> Jeff Goldhagen, director of the Duval County Health

> Department said representatives from the state

> Department of Health were closing the office at

> least through the weekend.

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> " Everybody is devastated, " Goldhagen said.

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> Grief counselors with the American Red Cross of

> Northeast Florida and the health department were at

> the scene meeting with employees, who Goldhagen said

> will be on administrative leave until the office

> reopens. About 150 people in the area were receiving

> help, said Christian Smith, spokeswoman with the Red

> Cross.

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> Jacksonville Sheriff Nat Glover and JSO

> officers and detectives at the Riverside Building

> shooting scene, just prior to talking to the media.

> -- Don Burk/Staff

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> John Agwunobi, secretary of the Florida Department

> of Health, declined to discuss the case except to

> extend support and concern to all the families

> involved.

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> Horowitz's family declined to comment.

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> In the neighborhood where Horowitz lived, 15 miles

> from the Riverside office, friends and neighbors

> described him as happily married and outgoing and

> said they had never seen him angry.

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> Even as the word " seemed " crept into their

> descriptions of Horowitz, they said it was

> impossible to imagine, even in retrospect, that he

> would have opened fire on others or take his own

> life.

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> " He seemed to have the perfect marriage; It seemed

> like they had everything going in the right

> direction, " said Chris Williams, who lived next door

> to Horowitz. " He was very friendly, very nice. I

> wouldn't even imagine him having a gun. "

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> Horowitz lived with his wife, Linda, in a

> single-story brick house with a fresh-clipped lawn

> on the 200 block of Vanderford Road West. Property

> records show they purchased the home in 1987.

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> The couple had four children, all grown, and seven

> grandchildren, whom neighbors said Horowitz often

> talked about.

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> Horowitz took his job with the state agency after

> retiring from the Navy in the early 1990s. He also

> opened a photo studio in his home, fulfilling a

> life-long dream, according to a biography posted on

> the studio's Web site.

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> Family members of Thoma and Steiner were at Shands

> yesterday afternoon and requested that they not be

> bothered by the media.

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> Staff writers Binyamin Appelbaum, Matt Galnor, Tia

> Mitchell, Dana Treen and Greg Walsh contributed to

> this report.

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> Staff writer Veronica Chapin can be reached at (904)

> 359-4161 or vchapinjacksonville.com.

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