It was his first day of work, a chance for the strapping young college intern to learn how companies deal with their employees. Trevor Wehner,…
It was his first day of work, a chance for the strapping young college intern to learn how companies deal with their employees.
Trevor Wehner, 21, a student at Northern Illinois University, showed up Friday and got pulled into a meeting with supervisors at a warehouse of the Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, Illinois, which makes valves for water treatment equipment and power generators.
They had an unpleasant task. They intended to fire a worker.
Wehner, who was set to graduate in May with a degree in human resource management, had never met Gary Martin.
But he watched as Martin was told he’d been let go, according to Wehner’s family friend Cindy Lou, who said on Facebook that he “sat in and observed the termination.”
Moments later, Martin pulled out a Smith & Wesson 40-caliber revolver and shot and killed Wehner and two other workers in the room, then took out two more employees nearby, according to police.
The other victims were Clayton Parks, Russell Beyer, Vicente Juarez and Josh Pinkard, they said.
Martin also wounded five cops with his handgun before he was killed following a brief firefight with police.
