A woman identified as a former postal employee went on a shooting spree at a mail sorting center near Santa Barbara, California, killing six people before committing suicide, authorities said on Tuesday according to Reuters. At least one other person, a woman, was critically wounded in the shooting, which erupted shortly after 9 p.m. on Monday at the warehouse-sized facility in the coastal town of Goleta, about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Los Angeles, a Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman said. Authorities were alerted to the shooting when dozens of panicked postal workers streamed out of the complex and ran to a firehouse across the street seeking help, according to the spokesman, Capt. Keith Cullom. The suspect was identified as a 44-year-old former U.S. Postal Service employee who retired on disability in 2003. She had been employed by the Postal Service since the 1990s, said Paul Krenn, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspector, but he said it was not immediately clear whether she had worked at the Goleta facility. --More 21 47 Local Time 18 47 GMT
