Family, friends try to make sense of Tuesday workplace shootingIt was apparently business as usual at Kawasaki of Memphis until a little after 2 p.m. Tuesday. It was then, authorities say, that 17-year-old Dexter Brown, in the store to pick up a brand new motorcycle, did the unthinkable.
"(He) had been in the store pretty much all day," said Lt. Rory Mack of the Bartlett Police Department, "and for some unknown reason pulled out a weapon and opened fire on the employees."
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Glen Page Jr., a 32-year-old salesman known to his friends as "Buddy," was shot three times. Police said he died on the showroom floor. Page's coworker, Cynthia Lester, was shot in the arm, and remains in critical condition.
Page's uncle, Joey Hadley, couldn't imagine how it could have happened. "He was selling motorcycles, and had been over here for awhile," Hadley said. "It's just a real shock."
A steady stream of family members, friends, and loyal customers showed up at the dealership after the shootings. Most of them had tears in their eyes as they tried to comfort each other and make sense of what happened. Some said they could have easily been there when the shots rang out.
"Me and my fiance come in here and talk to them every day," said Ronald Braham, a customer of the store. "Today we didn't come, and I was actually thinking about coming by."
Braham never imagined his latest visit to place normally reserved for fun would be under such sad circumstances.
Reported by Jason Miles
Suspect wanted for deadly shooting dies in fatal crash
A suspect wanted for a deadly shooting at a Mid-South business died after fleeing from authorities and crashing his car Tuesday afternoon.
According to authorities, Bartlett Police responded to a shooting Tuesday afternoon at the Kawasaki dealership at Elmore and Summer in Bartlett.
The suspect, 17-year old Dexter Brown, was a customer who was apparently waiting to pick up a motorcycle from the dealership. Brown shot two employees, killing one. A male victim was shot and killed. The other victim, a female, had non-critical injuries.
Lt. Rory Mack of the Bartlett Police Department said the motive for the shooting was unknown. "(He) had been in the store pretty much all day," Mack said, "and for some unknown reason, pulled out a weapon and opened fire on the employees."
After the shooting, Brown fled from Shelby County Sheriff's Deputies, driving his car up Highway 70, eventually crashing near Highway 385 in Arlington.
"He went off the roadway, traveled down a field several hundred yards, and all was well until he got into an embankment," said Shelby County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Steve Shular. "His vehicle hit an embankment, which caused his vehicle to go airborne and flip upside down."
According to Shular, there was no chase, rather, Brown panicked when he saw deputies and flipped the car on his own.
Brown's family had no comment Tuesday night.
Reported by Andrew Douglas
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Source: WMC-TV Memphis