Three Rental Center Employees Shot at Manassas, Va., Rental Center
A rental center employee shot three co-workers at United Rentals in Manassas, Va., yesterday, killing two of them. The man, identified as Marvin Grant, then fatally shot himself after a standoff with police. Grant, 37, had told a co-worker that “three co-workers are going to die.”
All three people shot by Grant were taken to a nearby hospital where two of them, Richard Lamont and Christopher Serrano, died. The third victim was reported in stable condition.
The Manassas City Police Department received a call at 7:11 a.m., the New York Times reported, reporting a shooting at United Rentals in Manassas.
No motive for the shootings has been reported.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.