Cobb Police today released the three-page rambling note left by the young man who inexplicably attacked fellow employees at his FedEx workplace in Kennesaw last week.
Unfortunately, the note just leaves more questions and no answers about why 19-year-old Geddy Lee Kramer shot six of his colleagues, said Sgt. Dana Pierce, spokesman for Cobb Police.
Kramer’s suicide note revealed a sexually frustrated man who apparently feared living an isolated life. But he cautioned that his “massacre” was not the fault of violent video games, music or another’s influence.
“I’m a sociopath. I want to hurt people,” the 19-year-old Acworth man wrote. “Maybe part of this is also the fact that a life lived in infamy is better than just another nobody. This is not anyone’s fault but mine.”
And while the note may have given clues that revealed a troubled young man, it specifically said there was no breaking point. It left some police officers wishing Kramer had revealed more.
“There is no silver bullet, there is no smoking gun,” Pierce told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “To me, none of it makes any sense.”
Kramer shot his first victim, security guard Christopher Sparkman just minutes before his 6 a.m., quitting time on April 29. Sparkman, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Kuwait, made the first 911 call, while bleeding from the stomach.
“I’ve been shot. I’ve been shot, ” a dazed, but coherent Sparkman told the 911 operator. “Tell my wife I love her….I’m losing energy really fast.”
Sparkman could be heard on the 911 recording asking a co-worker to put more pressure on the wound and then warned the operator,
“Please God, hurry, ” Sparkman said. “I do not want to die.”
Over the next 20 minutes, Kramer, a North Cobb High School graduate, would use the 12-gauge shotgun to shoot five more FedEx employees in the 550,000-square-foot warehouse.
None of them died – although the 28-year-old Sparkman was wounded critically. Some victims may have survived because Kramer loaded a mix of birdshot and buckshot in the weapon, authorities said.
Police arrive within three minutes and Kramer committed suicide.
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