Work-Related Shootings

The killing of three workers and wounding of two others at the Extron Electronics company in Santa Fe Springs was the latest in a series of workplace-related shootings in California in recent years. Following are similar shootings in 1993.

* Feb. 2: A La Habra janitor, enraged over a late $150 paycheck, poured gasoline on a bookkeeper and set her afire, then calmly walked away as the woman became engulfed in flames that fatally burned her.

* April 20: A former employee casually took up a position across the street from MCA World Headquarters in Universal City and pumped bullets into the 15-story “Black Tower” building. Terminated from the company in 1986 and unable to get a job, he wounded two employees, while five others were cut by flying glass.

* May 6: A former postal worker, after stabbing his mother to death, walked into the Dana Point post office and killed a former co-worker. Five others were wounded in a bloody two-day rampage. He had been fired for stalking a female co-worker.

* July 2: A mortgage broker, blaming a law firm for his financial trouble, rampaged through three floors of a San Francisco high-rise, killing eight people and wounding six others, then killing himself as police moved in.

* July 8: A one-time ranch hand who was said to have a hot temper and a personal grudge against some of his family members killed his sister-in-law and another employee in a shooting spree at a Fountain Valley embroidery store.

* Dec. 3: Fueled by chronic unemployment, a former Northrop Corp. computer systems engineer went on a shooting spree at an Oxnard unemployment office, killing four people before being shot and killed by police.