Police release Accent Signage shooter's personnel file
Company records from Accent Signage released Monday by the Minneapolis Police Department show that Andrew Engeldinger was reprimanded for chronic tardiness just a week before he went on a shooting rampage that left six people dead.
According to the more than 100-page personnel file, Engeldinger was late to work 35 days in a row in August and September.
On Sept. 20, Accent Signage quality control manager Rami Cooks sent Engeldinger a letter stating that his constant tardiness was a problem that needed to be, quote, "rectified immediately."
The file shows that Engeldinger received a similar letter in 2011 about another string of late arrivals. Manager John Souter also entered several letters going back to 2006 in Engeldinger's file that described incidents where co-workers said he was verbally abusive towards them.
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Police say Cooks and Souter were the first two people Engeldinger shot. Cooks later died at the hospital. Souter survived.
Engeldinger killed himself before police arrived.
MINNEAPOLIS WORKPLACE SHOOTING
• Part 1: Family describes Andrew Engeldinger's mental illness
• Part II: Engeldinger withdrew, only to emerge in news reports
• National Alliance on Mental Illness - Minnesota
