OMAHA, Neb. — Three employees wounded in a shooting last week at a cold-storage warehouse in southeast Nebraska don’t appear to be random victims, a prosecutor said Saturday.
Saline County Attorney Tad Eickman said authorities are trying to determine why Akouch Kashoual shot those workers and not others at the Americold Logistics plant in Crete.
Authorities have said Kashoual, a 26-year-old Sudanese, entered a break room Wednesday night and fired a handgun, wounding three employees, including a woman who was shot 11 times, before going outside and killing himself.
“There were a number of people in the break room when the shooter went into the room.He didn’t just open fire on anybody,” Eickman said.
Eickman said an autopsy was done Friday on Kashoual’s body but he didn’t yet have the results.
Eickman said investigators were still waiting to talk to the most seriously wounded victim, 40-year-old Elizabeth Canas, who cannot yet respondto questions. She was listed in critical condition Saturday, according to a spokesman at BryanLGH Medical Center in Lincoln.
The other two victims - 23-year-old Renee Villareal, who was shot four times, and 42-year-old Paul Rivera - were released from hospitals Thursday.
Front Section, Pages 5 on 09/26/2010