John Gardner

VISALIA, CA—Mail-Well company PrintXcel, based here, and the parent company are being sued by the mother of two young children left fatherless when a December shooting took the life of a PrintXcel employee shot to death by a former co-worker. The Visalia Times-Delta reported that Heidi Gano, live-in companion and mother to the two young sons of shooting victim Jose Manriquez II, filed the suit on behalf of her boys. Manriquez was shot to death by former employee John Gardner last December 9. The suit alleges that officials at PrintXcel allowed Gardner to harass and threaten co-workers prior to quitting in 2001, then failed to provide

VISALIA, CA—A former employee with Mail-Well company PrintXcel let himself through a side door at the facility December 9 and fired off at least a half-dozen shots, killing one employee and setting two small fires before taking his own life. The body of gunman John Gardner, 45, was found near an exit, according to the Associated Press, along with a revolver and semi-automatic handgun. Gardner, who left the company in 1999, had shot himself in the head. Prior to taking his own life, Gardner gunned down 31-year-old Jose Manriquez, according to the AP. Manriquez, who had become the father of a baby boy less than two

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