Suspect Dead in Shooting at Georgia FedEx Hub, Six Wounded

By Cameron McWhirter and Laura Stevens 

KENNESAW, Ga.--A FedEx Corp. employee injured six people then shot himself at a company sorting facility just north of Atlanta early Tuesday, according to local police.

Cobb County police spokesman Sgt. D.L. Pierce did not identify the shooter, but said he did work at the Kennesaw FedEx Ground facility as a package handler. Police found the man dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. They found a shotgun near his body.

Six people were injured, one man and one woman critically, in the "active shooter situation" that began at 5:54 a.m., police said. The victims were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Police and other law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI, were investigating the crime scene. Police dog teams were going through the area "just to make sure there are no secondary [explosive] devices which the shooter may have planted," Sgt. Pierce said.

FedEx said in a statement that "the situation is now stabilized and we are focused on the needs of our team members and cooperating with the law-enforcement investigation of this tragedy."

Numerous police and emergency vehicles blocked the entrance of the 500,000-square-foot FedEx Ground complex just south of the Cobb County Airport Tuesday morning. As security teams made their way through for inspections, rows of large white FedEx Corp. trucks sat idle at loading bays. From a distance, no employees could be seen.

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