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FedEx shooting suspect identified as baggage handler, age 19

By AJC Breaking News team
April 29, 2014

Authorities have identified the suspected gunman in Tuesday's shooting at a Georgia FedEx facility as a 19-year-old baggage handler. He killed himself after wounding six others, police said.

The gunman has been identified as Geddy Kramer. Cobb County police say the man walked into the FedEx warehouse on Airport Road in Kennesaw before 6 a.m. Tuesday and opened fire. Six men and women between the ages of 19 and 52 were taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, where one of them was listed in critical condition Tuesday afternoon.

Geddy Kramer was a 2013 graduate of North Cobb High School.

Shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday,  law enforcement has finished their investigation and turned the facility back over to FedEx. Police had been were sweeping the FedEx facility after an unknown number of Molotov cocktails were found there, apparently left by the gunman. The explosive devices were not used, police told the AJC.

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