Nov 15, 2008 11:33 am US/Pacific
Ex-Worker Sought For 3 Dead At Santa Clara Office
SANTA CLARA (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ―
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Suspected gunman Jing Hua Wu.
Santa Clara Police Department
A Mountain View man sought in the slaying of three of his former co-workers remained at large, a day after the shootings at a Silicon Valley high-tech firm.
Police said the gunman, who was recently let go from his job, returned to his former office in Santa Clara and opened fire Friday — killing the trio before fleeing and leading police on an intensive search that continued Saturday.
The suspect was identified as 47-year-old Jing Hua Wu, who police said had been a product test engineer at SiPort Inc., a four-year-old semiconductor company that makes chips for high-definition radios.
Authorities also identified two of the shooting victims as Sid Agrawal, SiPort's chief executive officer, and Brian Pugh, the company's vice president of operations.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired at an office complex at 3255 Scott Boulevard and Montgomery Drive shortly before 4 p.m. Friday and found the bodies of two men and one woman, said Santa Clara Police Lt. Mike Sellers. The female victim's name was not being released pending family notification.
Police stopped cars and scoured the office park where SiPort is located. They also went to Wu's Mountain View home but were unable to locate him, Sellers said.
Sellers described Wu as an Asian man about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds with black hair and black eyes.
Investigators believe Wu fled the office complex in a silver four-door Mercury Mariner sport utility vehicle with California license plate No. 6CJU602.
"He could be anywhere," Sellers said. "He's considered armed and dangerous. If you see him don't approach him, call the police."
SiPort spokesman Sunder Velamuri declined to go into details of the shootings or discuss why Wu was laid off.
"I just want people to know that the people that died -- they are very, very fine human beings that we lost. Family people with little kids," he told CBS 5.
"We are a small company … and this is so terrible," Velamuri added.
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