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| Two dead in halfway house shooting |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/30/2003 |
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A man killed a female co-worker at a prison halfway house and substance-abuse treatment center in North Philadelphia on Monday, then fatally shot himself, police said. "It appears to be a murder-suicide," said Officer Richard Devlin, a police department spokesman. Police said Vivian Figueroa, 34, was shot once in the head at around 12:20 p.m. inside a third-floor office in a portion of the building operated by Liberty Management, a private company under contract with the state Department of Corrections. The shooter was identified by police as Shawn Gilmore, also 34. Police said both worked at Liberty Management. About 77 inmates and recent parolees live at the center, according to Department of Corrections spokeswoman Susan McNaughton. No residents were involved in the shooting, she said. McNaughton said she did not know whether employees at the halfway house were usually subjected to security checks on their way in and out of the building. Some Department of Corrections halfway houses have a relatively low level of security and do not require employees to be checked for weapons, she said. Distraught relatives of the man and woman gathered outside the building in the hours after the shooting and engaged in a series of angry exchanges with each other. The building is also the site of an inpatient drug and alcohol treatment program run by Eagleville Hospital, another Department of Corrections contractor. |
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