Man Killed After Stabbing Four

.c The Associated Press

KEARNY, N.J. (AP) – A former postal worker was shot and killed by
police
Tuesday night after he walked into a Postal Service facility and
stabbed four
people, none fatally, authorities said.

The man had quit his temporary job at the facility last month
after a
personnel dispute, and may have returned to retaliate against
other
employees, said Terrence Hull, a Hudson County prosecutor.

The man walked into the lobby of the bulk mailing facility armed
with a
.380-caliber handgun and two knives and attacked the workers,
Hull said.

Three police officers arrived after a 911 call and saw the man in
a locker
room, covered in his own blood after apparently trying to cut his
wrists.

“He approached the officers and he was instructed to drop his
weapons a
number of times,” Hull said. “When he didn’t all three officers
discharged
their weapons.”

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. He was identified
only as a
26-year-old from Newark who immigrated from Ethiopia in 1994.

The injured suffered stab wounds and cuts, and were treated at
area hospitals
and released.

The man resigned March 5 and had held temporary jobs three other
times with
the Postal Service, Hull said.

He said the handgun was loaded with eight rounds of ammunition
but apparently
was not fired during the attack.

The postal facility, located in an industrial park, employs about
250 and
handles priority mail. Most of the workers were moved to a remote
part of the
building during the incident.