AURORA, Colo. A man fatally shot four employees at a Chuck ECheese restaurant just after it closed, police said. A fifth workerwas wounded - a dishwasher who was shot in the jaw and ran to nearbyapartments to call police.
A television station reported this morning that police hadarrested a former employee of the restaurant. Police would notconfirm the report; a press conference was scheduled for later today.
Aurora police spokeswoman Mary Schumacher said the Tuesday nightshooting in a suburban Denver shopping center did not appear to begang-related or a robbery.
"We are focusing the investigation on someone who had avendetta," Schumacher said. It appeared the gunman may have knownone or more of the victims, she said.
Margaret Kollberg, 50, who was in the restaurant office at thetime of the shooting, died at the scene. Colleen O'Connor, 17;Sylvia Crowell, 19, and Benjamin Grant, 17, all died this morning.
Bobby Stephens, a 20-year-old dishwasher, fled after being shotand knocked on the doors of nearby apartments in an effort to alertpolice, Schumacher said. Stephens was in fair condition today.
Authorities said a shooting at a nearby home shortly before therestaurant attack may be linked to the Chuck E Cheese shooting; bothassailants reportedly were wearing Los Angeles Raiders jackets.
In the earlier shooting, Eric Smith told authorities he answeredhis door when a man fitting the description of the restaurantassailant identified himself as a magazine salesman. Smith, 23, wasshot in the arm and was in fair condition this morning.
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