Gal kills 2 nursing home directors in KY
Jen1orbit
Hello,
Violence in the workplace, as 23 year old Kimberly Harris kills two
nursing home administrators. She had been fired from her job at the
nursing home five months ago.
On Tuesday, Kimberly returned to the nursing home, waited outside until
about 5:30 PM, which i assume was shift change time, and when these two
nursing home directors, both women in their 40's, walked out to the
parking lot, Kimberly just emptied her gun into the two women. Both were
hit multiple times and died.
Not quite as prolific a massacre as many other disgruntled employees
stage, but I still felt it worthy of mention. Especially since it was a
gal who engaged in this shooting rampage. We need more equality in the
mass murder arena. There is no physical or other legitimate reason why we
have not had a woman shoot 10 or more people to death in a massacre, while
we have had dozens of men shoot and kill ten or more. Oh well, patience is
a virtue. I'm sure that one of these days a gal will reach and surpass the
ten figure.
Take care, JOE
Courtesy of yesterday's Associated Press news wire:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Two nursing home administrators were gunned down as
they left work, and police arrested a fired nursing assistant described by
co-workers as mentally unstable.
Kimberly Harris, 23, of Elizabethtown was charged early today with two
counts of murder. She entered a plea of innocent at an arraignment before
Jefferson District Judge Steve Ryan.
No residents or other employees were injured in the shootings outside
Jefferson Place nursing home.
Deborah Bell, 46, the home's acting administrator and executive director,
and Patty Eitel, 43, nursing director, were shot about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday
as they walked onto a sidewalk toward the parking lot.
Both women died of multiple gunshot wounds, Jefferson County Deputy
Coroner Linda Knopf said.
Police were checking records of telephone calls placed from the home to
see if the administrators had reported getting any threats, said Officer
Troy Riggs, a spokesman for Jefferson County police.
About 30 minutes after the shootings, police stopped a car driven by Ms.
Harris, who had been fired by the nursing home. A handgun was found in her
car, police said.
Police said Ms. Harris vomited during questioning and had to be taken to
University Hospital. She was taken to jail this morning.
Brittany McCorkle, a nurse's aide at Jefferson Place, said the suspect was
fired after being taken from work to a mental hospital about five months
ago.
``She just started wigging out and asked to be sent to a mental hospital
and they did,'' she said.
Bobbi Briggs, an employee who answered the phone at the nursing homes,
said she was in a patient's room when the shooting started.
Ms. Briggs said the suspect was a former employee who left a few months
ago ``under not pleasant circumstances.''
``This former employee was a sick person, and that takes care of it all,''
she said.
AP-NY-04-30-97
Jen1orbit
Hello,
Here is a slightly more in-depth article on Kimberly Harris, the 23 year
old gal who shot two of her former bosses to death at a nursing home from
which she was fired about five months ago. Kimberly's father talks about
his daughter, and provides us with some insights into possible reasons for
her shooting rampage.
It seems that officials at the nursing home told Kimberly not to worry
about her job, when she became depressed and had to be hospitalized at a
psychiatric facility. But when she returned to work about a week later,
she was told to quite, or else she would be fired. Nobody likes to be LIED
to, folks.
Anyway, it sounds like the two people she killed were her direct
supervisors, her actual bosses at the nursing home, not just co-workers.
So she probably accomplished successfully what she set out to do, which
was kill these two bosses. There is no indication that Kimberly wanted to
kill a lot of people, or that she shot at anyone else, besides these two
bosses. Both were shot multiple times with a .22 caliber handgun, and died
at the scene. Not a bad job of shooting on Kimberly's part.
Take care, JOE
The following news report comes to us courtesy of The Elizabethtown
Kentucky News Enterprise newspaper, online edition:
E'town woman charged in double murder
By KEVIN EIGELBACH
Staff Writer
Kimberly Harris is shown in her
1992 Central Hardin Yearbook
photo, left, and in a police mug-shot,
right
Ignoring the cigarette between his fingers, the father
of accused double-murderer Kimberly Harris hung a
curtain of smoke and searched his soul to explain his
daughter's actions.
He found no answers, only frustration that the tragic
shooting at a Louisville nursing home might have been avoided had
complaints been taken seriously, had warning signs been heeded.
``If only they'd listened,'' Robert Harris cried out.
Kimberly Harris, 23, of Elizabethtown, is charged in the shooting deaths
of Jefferson Place Executive Director Deborah Bell, 46, and Nursing
Director Patti Eitel, 43, as they left work Tuesday afternoon.
The woman with no previous felony or misdemeanor convictions in Hardin
County
pleaded innocent Wednesday and remains in jail on $1-million bond. The
case continues May 9.
Robert Harris said Kimberly had worked as a nursing assistant at Jefferson
Place for about a year, sometimes doing double shifts. She enjoyed working
with the residents, but Robert recalls she complained to family about her
supervisors.
One evening, Kimberly came home and said someone had left a nasty note for
a head nurse. She was sure she would be blamed, her father said.
``I think she told them then if she was accused of it, she would get a gun
and kill them,'' Robert Harris said.
Evidently, management did confront her with the note. Robert said
Jefferson Place
officials called the family concerned about Kimberly. They sent her in an
ambulance to University of Louisville Hospital and from there to Central
State Hospital recently. She stayed at Central State, a mental-health
facility in Jefferson County, for several days.
Robert said the hospital gave her medication for depression, but he said
that she'd since stopped taking it because it made her sleepy.
Robert Harris also claims nursing home officials told Kimberly not to
worry about her job, that it would be waiting when she left the mental
hospital. But when she returned the next week, Kimberly was given a choice
to quit or be fired, he said.
Brittany McCorkle, a nurse's aide at Jefferson Place, said Harris was
fired after she was taken to Central State. ``She just started wigging out
and asked to be sent to a mental hospital and they did,'' McCorkle said.
Rina VanKleef, a former nursing supervisor, said Eitel, one of the
shooting victims, tried to look out for Harris. She said Harris worked
well with patients but would sometimes become angry with co-workers over
minor incidents - for example, being asked to move her car from a reserved
parking space.
Kimberly Harris also had reportedly been making harassing calls to the
facility since her dismissal.
``The people on TV say she's been calling up the place, threatening to
blow it up. That's news to us. I don't know what all happened,'' Robert
Harris said.
What did finally happen, however, is that Kimberly Harris allegedly killed
her former
bosses. Both died at the scene of multiple gunshot wounds, Jefferson
County Deputy Coroner Linda Knopf said.
``I'd have never dreamed she'd have done something like this,'' Harris
said, tears welling in his eyes. ``She never was a violent person.''
A short time after the shootings, Harris was arrested on Interstate 65 in
Bullitt County. A handgun was found in the car, Jefferson County police
Chief Ron Ricucci said.
Tuesday night, Kimberly's brother, Robbie Harris, was unable to locate his
.22-caliber pistol. Robbie had noticed the pistol missing Saturday night,
but assumed someone had merely moved it out of the reach of children,
Robert Harris said.
Robert and his wife, Judy, learned of their daughter's plight Tuesday
night about 8:30 when a television news crew arrived at their house at
1791 Round Top Road.
Since then, they have searched for answers.
They had tried unsuccessfully to see her in the hospital Tuesday night,
where she was taken when she became sick during police questioning. She
told the police she took an entire bottle of pain relievers, her father
said.
One of four children, Kimberly graduated from Central Hardin High School
in 1992. She then entered the Army, as her older sister Tracy had done,
but stayed only for a few months, her father said. She later held a
succession of jobs - a sewing factory in Hodgenville, temporary employment
agencies.
When Kimberly left Tuesday morning for work at Louisville Bedding, she
seemed fine.
She told her parents she was leaving for work, and they told her to be
careful, as they always do, Robert Harris said.
Harris is still grasping to understand what went wrong.
``Don't make her out to be a criminal,'' Harris pleaded. ``She's not.
She's a good kid.''
Information also contributed by The Associated Press.
Laure Sturdevant
FYI, JOE, it's generally considered disrespectful to call women gals.
Jen1orbit
sc...@pipeline.com (Laure Sturdevant) Wrote:
>FYI, JOE, it's generally considered disrespectful to call women gals.
Hello,
Thanks for the information from the very depths of political
correctness. However I do not subscribe to the new linguistic rules of
what people should be called. When I refer to women as "gals" I mean no
disrespect, and thus I will continue to refer to them as gals whenever the
mood strikes.
Take care, JOE
Tom Christopher
one weird thing is that nursing home jobs are usually shitty jobs,
it's not like the post office where it's civil service and the
benefits are ok.......
Laure Sturdevant
In article <19970503155...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
jen1...@aol.com (Jen1orbit) wrote:
Why the defensive stance? I don't see what PCness has to do with it; the
word "gal" is perceived as being disrespectful and therefore people who
CAN spell the slightly more difficult woman/women generally do so. Don't
you have a spellchecker?
Cybil
Jen1orbit wrote:
>
> sc...@pipeline.com (Laure Sturdevant) Wrote:
>
> >FYI, JOE, it's generally considered disrespectful to call women gals.
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the information from the very depths of political
> correctness. However I do not subscribe to the new linguistic rules of
> what people should be called. When I refer to women as "gals" I mean no
> disrespect, and thus I will continue to refer to them as gals whenever the
> mood strikes.
>
> Take care, JOE
Let's change the word "women" to "blacks" and "gals" to "boys" and see
how it reads...
Sarah A. Brice
>sc...@pipeline.com (Laure Sturdevant) Wrote:
>
>>FYI, JOE, it's generally considered disrespectful to call women gals.
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the information from the very depths of political
>correctness. However I do not subscribe to the new linguistic rules of
>what people should be called. When I refer to women as "gals" I mean no
>disrespect, and thus I will continue to refer to them as gals whenever the
>mood strikes.
Joe,
I'm with you and for the record, I'm 40 years old, accomplished in my third
career, a believer in women's rights, but not a fanatic and I still don't
mind being called gal or girl from time to time, as long as its not meant
in a demeaning way. If it's used in the same way as "buddy" might be used
or "guy" for men, then fine.
BTW I hate the PC way of calling people Chairperson, etc. I still go with
Chairman, etc. Call me Politically Incorrect, but different strokes for
different folks.
Sarah