Murder-Suicide of Chrysler Workers Followed Fight on Plant Floor, Police Say Murder-Suicide of Chrysler Workers Followed Fight on Plant Floor, Police Say

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Story updated on Sept. 21 at 10:15 am. Sign up for our e-mail newsletter so you’ll always know Two Chrysler workers are dead after a fight at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit what’s happening on AOL Jobs Articles & News. on Thursday morning, police said.

The incident began at around 7:55 a.m. Thursday when a male employee allegedly slit the Type your e-mail address. SIGN UP throat of a coworker on the plant floor. Jeff Hunt was identified as the attacker, and Keith Readus as the victim, according to local press reports. Readus died on the spot. After the altercation, Hunt apparently immediately fled the Chrysler plant, according to local station WWJ-TV. The Jefferson North plant was immediately placed on lockdown, reported the Related Videos By 5min Detroit News. (Grief counselors were invited onto the site to meet with the staff, as pictured above.) Shortly after, Hunt was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a red Jeep Wrangler in nearby Belle Isle Park, which is on an island in the Detroit River.

In speaking to AOL Jobs, Cassandra Lewis, an officer with the Detroit police department's How a PGA Tour Any Old Job Summer Job 9th Precinct on the city's east side, confirmed the two men "had a history of tension." She Job Teaches Won't Do - We Searching Tips for wouldn't comment further, including whether police had filed previous reports on incidents Event Marketing Don't Need More Teens Play relating to the two men. Strategy Play Low Wage Jobs Play But the Detroit News was reporting Friday that the murder-suicide was apparently a crime of passion. Hunt's wife is also an employee at the plant, and turned to Readus for advice about Search Articles her marriage during a frustrating time, according to an account by Readus's older sister Jackie Davis-Alexander. Finding out about the consultation, Hunt apparently went after Search Articles Search Articles Readus in a fit of jealousy.

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Teri Democratic party in action. 15 minutes ago

boxcart007 So this was basically a love triangle and should have been noted as such. This

converted by Web2PDFConvert.com wasn't a labor issue. Another wasteful story just to get idiots like me to want to read it...... Good job guys, you suckered me right into it.... 28 minutes ago

aaldrew Why do people need concelors? Aren't we all grown up? 38 minutes ago

INFRWKSNJ I wanted to do the seats today, no it's my turn. You did the seats last week. Let me do the seats or I'll cut yor throat. Oh no, too late. 39 minutes ago

phpoling Leave your own problems at the door when you ariive for your jobs jeez. Get grip of yourselves, people! 49 minutes ago

Doug *****, Power or Money is the motivation for Murder, pick one. 1 hour ago

paul sharier -1 was everyone involved black? BOBC..just asking 1 hour ago

5 replies to paul sharier's comment

judithgrayson we can look forward to more hideous and spontaneous attacks from americans. the reason: our heads are exploding with rage. the "grief" counselors are a bit late. actually, we should have them on every urban sstreetcorner and in every suburban mall, to prevent suicides and killings. we are not people who are used to losing and now it's all lost. our losses include our country, in the case of the city of detroit, detroit itself, our futures, our homes (in detroit you can't sell your home, because it has no value but homeowners keep paying those mortgages). look, it's a list that goes on and on. it gets worse. 1 hour ago

Robin who is this? 1 hour ago

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