CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) – There is no proof of systemic racism at a Connecticut beer distributor where a gunman shot dead eight people last year because he said African-Americans were treated badly, a police probe concluded.
Omar Thornton, 34, a driver at Hartford Distributors, a family-owned beer wholesaler 10 miles east of the state capital in Manchester, shot eight people before killing himself in August 2010.
Minutes before the frenzy took place, Thornton, who was black, was fired at a disciplinary meeting for having stolen beer and empty kegs from the company.
Manchester police on Thursday released a 543-page report on its investigation into the killing, as well as surveillance footage of Thornton walking through the firm's lobby with a 9 millimeter handgun in one hand and a lunch box in the other. The shooting spree lasted just three minutes.
Police Chief Marc Montminy told a press conference that there had been allegations that Thornton had photographic evidence of racial slurs against him on his cell phone. But Montminy said forensic analysis of the phone showed that "that is not true."
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