1 Dead, 2 Hurt in Mich. Office Shooting

By DAVID AGUILAR

TROY, Mich. – A former accounting firm employee armed with rifle or shotgun is suspected of gunning down three people at the firm’s office building Monday morning, killing one and wounding the others, police said. Officers were searching for the gunman two hours after the attack.

The two survivors were both men, Beaumont Hospital spokeswoman Ilene Wolfe said. She had no details about the victim who died.

Police in Troy, a Detroit suburb, were searching the office building and surrounding community for Anthony LaCalamita, 38, Police Lt. Gerry Scherlinck said. He said there was a chance the gunman could have driven away after the shooting.

LaCalamita was listed among the professional staff on the Web site of Gordon Advisors, a public accounting and business consulting firm in the building. Scherlinck said the shooter was a former employee of one of the offices there and might have been terminated as recently as a week ago.

The shooting was on the second floor, Scherlinck said. He could not say how many shots were fired but said the shooter used a long gun – either a rifle or a shotgun.

Police were not sure whether the gunman still was inside the building two hours after the 10 a.m. shootings or whether he might have driven away.

The 170,000-square-foot building houses a number of businesses, including law offices and the accounting firm where the shooting was believed to have occurred. Police at first told workers to stay in their offices but a short time later evacuated the building.

Police in bulletproof vests and with guns drawn could be seen going into the building, about 15 miles north of Detroit, shortly after 10 a.m.

Bill Adgate, who works at LPL Financial inside the building, said he had been hunkered down inside the office for a couple of hours. He said police told the group to stay put until officers allowed them to leave.

“It’s tough. I want to get out,” Adgate said by telephone.

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Associated Press Writers Ron Vample and Jeff Karoub contributed to this story from Detroit.