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 "This
guy's been talking about this for a year."
A co-worker gives his opinion on the massacre
For a
few months Josoeph Wesbecker had been suffering from
blackouts, fits of anger and mental confusion. All this
combined with a long record of mental problems led his
employer, Standard Gravure Corporation in Louisville,
Kentucky, to give him disability leave until he could fix
his problems. But for Wesbecker the reasons for his leave
were different.
He believed that the company were plotting against him. He
believed that they were deliberately exposing him to
dangerous chemicals and deliberately putting him under
stressful situations. He believed that these were the
reasons he was feeling ill. And over the next seven months
(while still on the payroll) he plotted his revenge on the
scheming bastards.
The act of revenge finally took place on September 14, 1989.
He took numerous handguns and the favorite weapon of the
mass murderer, an AK-47 assault rifle, to his workplace. He
took the elevator up to the executive offices to get the
revenge he needed to feel good about himself.
As soon as he was out of the elevator he was shooting -
killing a receptionist and wounding others. He then
proceeded through the offices shooting at anything that
moved. He was a man on a mission and nothing was going to
stop him on this day, not even mental stress. Eventually
Wesbecker came to the end of the line. He had reached the
area he had worked, the pressroom, where he dropped the
AK-47 that had served him so well up to this point and
pulled out a 9mm pistol. There was no one else in the room
to kill so he did that mass murder thing - he blew his
brains all over the roof, wall and floor.
In the space of nine minutes Joseph Wesbecker had managed to
kill seven people and wound twelve others. But unfortunately
his anger was totally misplaced as all the dead and wounded
were people like himself - little people. Somehow all the
arseholes that held positions of power in the company had
managed to escape his rage. And of those killed, most were
his co-workers, many of whom had felt just as angry with the
bosses as Joe himself.
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