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A computer engineer at a Silicon Valley start-up was granted a final meeting with his bosses which he used to allegedly shoot and kill all three for sacking him. Jing Hua Wa, of electronics firm Siport, was apparently given the meeting as staff were not suspicious when the test engineer requested it on the day he was laid off. But after disappearing in an office with the company’s founder, head of operations and head of human resources, the 47-year-old pulled a 9mm pistol and fired it “multiple” times. In a press briefing, Santa Clara police also told reporters that Wu was the only employee the firm laid off, and one report claimed it was for poor performance, not company cost cuts. Chief Stephen Lodge also said that Wu, a family man with 25 years of industry experience, had no history of violence or mental illness, as far as authorities could tell. Wu’s alleged shooting of the three executives, all pronounced dead at the scene, had caused “genuine fear in the community” and police spoke of relief in apprehending him after an all-night manhunt. They charged him with three counts of murder. The slaying comes against a backdrop of redundancies in Silicon Valley, heart of the US computer industry, which observers say are affecting droves of people who wouldn’t normally be out of work. On Friday, Sun Microsystems, one of its biggest microchip firms, announced it was cutting up to 6,000 full-time jobs, representing a cull to its workforce of up to 18%. A slowdown in orders for the regions’ firms, a direct result of the financial pressures on businesses, has forced some of them to cut down their recruitment or freeze it altogether. Nov 17, 2008 Email this article Printer friendly page Previous Page
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