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Stabbings at Tallahassee Door Company Leave Several Injured Stabbing Attack in Tallahassee Injures 5; Suspect Is Held
(about 2 hours later)
Several people were stabbed in an attack at a manufacturing company in Tallahassee on Wednesday morning, the police said. An employee at a manufacturing company in Tallahassee stabbed five of his co-workers after a dispute on Wednesday morning, the police said.
The Tallahassee Police Department said that officers responded to a call from Dyke Industries, which manufactures doors, around 8:37 a.m. Multiple people had been stabbed, the police said. The suspect was taken into custody. One of the workers was in serious condition and the rest were in good or fair condition, according to a spokeswoman for a local hospital, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
A local hospital, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, said it had received five patients after the episode. One patient was in serious condition and the rest were in good or fair condition, the spokeswoman said. Police officers responded to a call of a stabbing at Dyke Industries, which manufactures doors, around 8:35 a.m., said Steven D. Outlaw, the interim police chief of the Tallahassee Police Department.
A local television station, ABC 27, reported that witnesses said the suspect was an employee who had been fired. Another employee fought him off during the attack, the station reported. The suspect, Antwann D. Brown, 41, had been working at the company for about three months, according to preliminary information gathered by the police. He clocked in at 8 a.m., but quickly got into a verbal dispute and was told to clock out, the authorities said. Instead, he brandished a small folding knife and attacked, appearing to seek out certain victims, Chief Outlaw said.
The company’s site says it runs 15 distribution outlets serving the Southeast, providing wood, steel and fiberglass doors and other items, and is the corporate successor to two millwork manufacturing companies that date to 1866. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Chief Outlaw credited other workers with stopping Mr. Brown. After the stabbing, several employees “armed themselves with whatever they could” and held him at bay until the police arrived, he said.
Mr. Brown was apprehended about a block away from the job site, Chief Outlaw said.
The attack unfolded on the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, as Chief Outlaw and other emergency responders attended a ceremony honoring the victims, held at a nearby firehouse. The timing raised the specter of terrorism when the initial reports came in, Chief Outlaw said, but it quickly became clear that it was a workplace dispute.
The company’s site says that it runs 15 distribution outlets serving the Southeast, providing wood, steel and fiberglass doors and other items, and that it is the corporate successor to two millwork manufacturing companies that date to 1866. Representatives of the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Shortly after the attack, some news outlets erroneously reported that the stabbing had taken place at a Coca-Cola bottling plant next door to the company.Shortly after the attack, some news outlets erroneously reported that the stabbing had taken place at a Coca-Cola bottling plant next door to the company.
Linda Sewell, a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, said that no Coca-Cola employees were involved, and operations at the plant were continuing as normal. Linda Sewell, a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, said that no Coca-Cola employees were involved and that operations at the plant were continuing as normal.
This is a developing story and will be updated.